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Re:Facial scrubs polluting Great Lakes with plastic by astrodust on Friday August 02, 2013 @02:43PM (#6148807)
History is filled with examples of well-intentioned solutions like this going horribly awry.

Talk to an Australian about cane toads, for example. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cane_toads_in_Australia).

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Re:Facial scrubs polluting Great Lakes with plastic by Houshalter on Friday August 02, 2013 @06:13PM (#6150003)
Maybe so, however that is a fully general counterargument that applies to any attempt to solve any problem ever.
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Re:Facial scrubs polluting Great Lakes with plastic by astrodust on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @11:22AM (#6173390)
Let's say you run a barber shop. You could always set the hair on the floor on fire, right? That'll clean it up! What could possibly go wrong?

...or maybe you could just sweep it up.

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