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Old 01-12-2009, 11:34 AM
 
Location: Wheaton, Illinois
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How is throwing them away green?

It isn't. But worrying about what to do with them isn't worth the effort. Pretty trivial way of being "green".

This reminds me of apologists for the Plains Indians who say the Indians used every part of the buffalo, that they made children's rattles from buffalo *******s for instance. But I doubt they were making rattles of every buffalo *******, otherwise the Comanche would've been up to their elbows in rattles.
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Old 01-12-2009, 03:14 PM
 
Location: Maine
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It isn't. But worrying about what to do with them isn't worth the effort. Pretty trivial way of being "green".
Trivial adds up. I looked at a bottle. It's a 5. I don't have plastic recycling here so that would be a problem. Since I seldom have them I save the one or two every couple of years for tiny seeds.

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This reminds me of apologists for the Plains Indians who say the Indians used every part of the buffalo, that they made children's rattles from buffalo *******s for instance. But I doubt they were making rattles of every buffalo *******, otherwise the Comanche would've been up to their elbows in rattles.
Maybe they ate them. I'd rather not think about *that.*
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Old 01-13-2009, 09:38 AM
 
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My vet's office gladly takes them and uses them again.
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Old 01-13-2009, 10:38 AM
 
Location: Washington DC
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My vet's office gladly takes them and uses them again.
Buffalo ***********?
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Old 01-13-2009, 02:35 PM
 
Location: Wheaton, Illinois
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Buffalo ***********?

The program here won't let you say the word that describes the sac around male reproductive organs. Let's see, scro-tum.
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Old 01-13-2009, 02:56 PM
 
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Throw them in the trash? Bespite what the environmental environmental nuts say, we aren't exactly running out of landfills. In fact one of the world's largest landfills (in new york) was recently retired and converted to a recreation park.
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Old 01-13-2009, 03:55 PM
 
Location: Wheaton, Illinois
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Throw them in the trash? Bespite what the environmental environmental nuts say, we aren't exactly running out of landfills. In fact one of the world's largest landfills (in new york) was recently retired and converted to a recreation park.
I agree with you but I don't like calling garbage dumps "landfills"; it's a euphemism that was probably put forth by the same PR flack that got idiots to call houses "homes".

What goes on at those places isn't "land filling", it's garbage dumping.
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