Originally Posted by LeRoySmith (Post 2315745)

Plastic Island in the Pacific Ocean, the Seventh Continent - Iberdrola.

I haven't seen it for myself but this doesn't sound great.

Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2315892)

That is one interesting link!!!!!

Originally Posted by golfing eagles (Post 2315755)

Even small doses of a powerful hallucinogen, or more likely an underlying psychosis.:1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

Originally Posted by Pugchief (Post 2315768)

Wow, your wife must be really intuitive. How else could she spot the Northerners in Publix without them wearing their Northerner identifying badge?

Plenty of full timers are pushy, annoying, etc, too. Your comment reeks of stereotyping and is patently ridiculous.

Originally Posted by fdpaq0580 (Post 2315780)

To your middle paragraph. Not many people sit around and watch stored guns. But, (you knew there would be a but) no matter how well guns or ammo are locked up, an awful lot of them seem to end up in the hands of folks who use them to intentionally do a lot of harm and bad stuff. What do you think we, as a God loving, peace loving country ought to do to stop guns from being used in this reprehensible manner?

Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2315897)

The way to stop mass murders is require all guns for civilians to be single shot. Police then confiscate all multiple magazine guns and buy some back until there is mostly single shot. Then the mass murders will decrease. Australia did something along those lines with GREAT SUCCESS!

Originally Posted by retiredguy123 (Post 2315871)

To get back on topic, my only point about this thread is that Florida doesn't need a state law banning plastic grocery bags.

Originally Posted by LeRoySmith (Post 2315893)

I thought so too and it led me to start searching for other articles on the topic and it's interesting but not very pretty.

Originally Posted by Bill14564 (Post 2315399)

That is not the common definition of recycling. The common definition is recovering the material from an item so that it can be used again as that same material - re-cycling. Aluminum from cans can be reused as aluminum; glass from bottles can be reused as glass; plastics can be reused as plastics.

Our trash isn't recycled into energy, it is destroyed (burned) to extract energy. Except for some metals, the original material no longer exists to be reused.

I suppose if you insist on calling trash-to-energy a form of recycling then every engine that burns a petroleum product is also a recycling system that recycles oil into energy.

Originally Posted by fdpaq0580 (Post 2315833)

ban guns, with few reasonable exceptions. Yes, bad guys and girls may still get their hands on a gun. But with far fewer guns available, it would be more difficult to come by them. Basically few tax dollars. And, I recon, far more lives saved.
Make your choice. Lives hang in the balance.

Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2315887)

......Incidentally, I turned on the car radio to NPR about 2 PM today

Originally Posted by fdpaq0580 (Post 2315408)

Burning leaves various kinds of altered materials behind. Like wood fire in a fireplace leaves ashes and smoke and various gases, burnt trash leaves stuff, too. What kinds of stuff depends on what the trash consists of. So, the questions I have are, what does the waste from burning consist of (metals, glass, plastic gunk, ash)? Is any of the waste toxic or harmful to the environment in any way.? How is the residue or waste from burning disposed of. What happens to it?
Burning oil, coal, natural gas, to create energy produces some pretty nasty by products. What about trash? Just how clean ( or unclean) is it?

Originally Posted by Darield (Post 2315456)

. I agree that there are plenty of distractions from so much corruption, gas-lighting, etc, but with a background in science, I know this is not the "hysteria du jour". I can't do anything about much of the craziness going on right now in the world but I can do my part by bringing bags when I go shopping at the grocery stores as well as other stores. I asked my local Publix and they use thousands of bags a day. Multiply that by the hundreds of Publix, Walmarts, Winn Dixie, etc.,etc in Florida and the number is astronomical. Many of this plastic ends up in landfills and the ocean.

Originally Posted by Canada friends (Post 2315514)

I’m from Canada and we are eliminating plastic bags.. When I come to the Villages I’m so disappointed that stores especially Walmart continue to use plastic bags…Why is it that people can spend $400.00 at Costco who don’t offer bags and don’t have an issue…then go to Walmart and use 10 bags for a $50.00 order…Hello people don’t you see what these bags are doing to the environment…

Originally Posted by morchol (Post 2315526)

There are many many products sold in plastic containers and people are worried about plastic grocery bags? What about soda, water, many bulk vegetables, condiments such as ketchup and mustard along with a plethora of other products?