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Plastic is fantastic! : Comments
By Ken Calvert, published 11/10/2021Plastic can be put to so many helpful and efficient ways. Waste plastic should be burnt by municipalities.
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I was a plastics conversion expert way back in the 60s, so do know a bit about the toxicity of the most used plastics. Most of the engineering plastics are totally non toxic. You could eat them, & they would pass through you with no effect. Most packaging plastic decomposes so quickly they they had to use minutely holed drag nets to find anything to complain about.
Some of the others such as plasticised PVC used in electrical insulation are very mildly toxic, but you wont find them floating around at sea. The copper takes them to the bottom, where tectonic plate induction will ultimately take care of them.
I spent years sailing around the Pacific islands. I have visited dozens of little islands, & sand cays hundreds of nautical miles from anywhere. Many not visited in decades if ever, & yes you find a minute amount of plastic flotsam on these beaches, but always in it's last stage of decomposition, the minute remains simply adding to the coral sand forming the beach or cay.
It is a real pity that ratbag greenies can't find something useful to put all that worry to. They might be able to do something slightly useful if they did.