People have no bloody idea about saving energy

Re:People have no bloody idea about saving energy by three14 on Wednesday August 18, 2010 @02:31PM (#1615093)

I don't get worked up over landfills, but I do get worked up over all those bits of styrofoam that never make it into the landfills and hang out on the beach or in a park or wherever they happened to land - I'd greatly prefer those bits be replaced by something biodegradable.

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Re:People have no bloody idea about saving energy by gcheong on Wednesday August 18, 2010 @09:35PM (#1616218)

According to this website (http://www.worldcentric.org/about-us/faq#pla6) it takes at least 180 days for a corn-based cup to biodegrade in a compost. Biodegradable or not, it's probably more efficient to hire people to just clean up the trash periodically instead of hoping for a biodegradable solution.

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Re:People have no bloody idea about saving energy by three14 on Thursday August 19, 2010 @01:54AM (#1616636)

And even more efficient yet if people throw out their trash. The point is that people don't hire workers to clean up trash where I see all of it.

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