Oil vs Plastic

I really believe it will be a very long time before we run out of oil,the thieving oil companies keep saying we are,but if you ask them how many capped wells they have,they will shut up right fast. As for not making items into plastic,not only the medical people have to look elswhere,but I would be lost without having plastic pants to potty train young children.

I am freaking out about it! Part of the reason is that I have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder; and once something like this gets on my mind I can't let go of it. A friend asked me several months ago how I was able to justify the work that I do since it involves selling plastic. I have no difficulty at all in what I do. It is not the kind of plastic people throw away. I have pieces of the original product that was produced 61 years ago when it was first made. I love the fact that All Detergent started marketing it's laundry detergent in a concentrated form. It not only does the same amount of laundry as the large bottle did, it's less use of throw-away plastic, and it's much lighter to carry into the house. I see that some of the other companies are following suit. I hope that all of the egg-packaging companies will go back to cardboard containers and quit using the styrofoam ones. (But then I worry about what all of the people that are working in those plants will do for jobs - I warned you about the OCD, didn't I?) I don't think Kroger is a nationwide grocery chain but it is fairly well spread around and it has the most wonderful canvas bags for sale. The regular bags are good and hefty with a nice flat bottom and are sold for $.99 each. They also have really great insulated bags that are fantastic and have a zipper closing for $1.99 each. The check-out cashiers even pack these bags for you. I bring them to WalMart and to Foodland and to the mall when I go and pack everything in them. I love glass packaging, but I also remember the days of carrying those heavy bags of groceries up many flights of stairs and now that I am older and disabled......???? I also remember how messy trash day was when we put our trash out in paper bags that were filled with our stinky newspaper wrapped garbage. I do compost, but you can't put smelly rotten left-over fish in the compost heap. I hope you can see how conflicted I am on this issue. I think it is a very smart question when you ask about hospitals. I would love to know how difficult it would be for them to go back to actually sterilizing things as opposed to using disposables. Is it really that much more cost effective? But the whole health care issue is an entirely different subject. Do you remember nurse's aides? Do you remember back rubs?

I heard that it is better to store things in glass rather than plastic, but the latter is cheaper. I do like that we can recycle the light plastics, but while we are told to recycle and make do, other countries like China are going ahead and they are not as concerned with saving the environment and I would hate that we should cut down while they have no restrictions. It may have to be that we go and use glass containers, but carrying them home without having them break, especially if it is slippery and there is snow on the ground, and we do not have a car is going to be hard.

any decent chemistry student knows you can make plastic from other things they just use oil cuz its a cheap form of carbon and hydrogen

Luckily, many things can be recycled, and they are developing new synthetic materials at an amazing rate. And now hybrid cars aren't a futuristic dream... they're here, and they're mainstream. As reasoning human beings, we will always find a way to survive and thrive... when it gets down to it, we can accomplish miracles!