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Sanyo Develops Corn-Based Biodegradeable CD
Recoil_42 writes "PC World has an intriguing article about one way to help ease a growing problem: computer waste. Sanyo, with the help of Dow, has created a biodegradeable disc made of corn. The discs take 50-100 years to degrade, well within acceptable limits, and should come to market by the end of this year. The speedbump, of course, is the projected price: 3 times that of a normal plastic disc, but that cost is expected to be reduced to 1.2 times as (if?) the discs become more popular."
woohooo, the prize is mine... Bye bye karma
Any prize for the first intelligent post???
Of course, there are gonna be some greenies out there that won't like what I am gonna say.
Oh well, sucks to be them.
God forbid there are opposing views, we wouldn't want that.....
My thought is this, CD's taking up space in landfills is a joke. There are things that we throw away every day that take up a lot more space.
Cups, diapers, pride, ego, remnants of fast food meals, paper products of every type.
Pick up a CD and look at it...
Seriously, if you are complaining about the space that this takes up in a landfill then you got your priorities wrong. There are far more important things to worry about.
Besides CD's provide an incredible archeological opportunity. Think about how valuable written texts are that can be dated back 1000 years. Archeologists work there entire careers for the opportunity to get a scrap of 1/3 a sheet of paper.
Say what you want, but in 3000 years those CD's will be in much better shape then a book.
Back to the corn based media, gets a big 'ol from me. I can go out and buy a 100 spindle of cheap CDR media at Wal-Mart right now for around $20. I have no intention to allow some unjustified guilt trip influence what I buy. If the corn stuff is more expensive then it damn well better be better quality.
This reminds me of when Disney got all that crap for the DVD rental program where the DVD's self destructed.
Disney wishes they would ship as many DVD's in a day as AOL puts out CD's. I personally wasn't too hot on Disney's idea, but that was for other reasons. I could care less about how much space a small thing like that is taking up at the landfill.
This has nothing to do with anything remotely Slashdot related, but I need to do something before my head explodes...
As I type this, my roomate and my best friend/recent lover are fucking in the next room over. WHAT THE FUCK. After 10 years of friendship and built-up sexual tension, we finally hooked up and now less than a week later she's banging my roomate. I am so fucking incensed right now I can't think straight. I wouldn't mind if they went to a hotel or otherwise didn't make it known, but she just FUCKING WALKED PAST MY ROOM TOPLESS AND SHUT THE DOOR IN MY FUCKING FACE. How fucking insensitive can you be?!
This sucks. It's 3AM and I'm telling strangers (GEEK strangers, no less) about my personal problems. I am a big pussy and will most likely not say anything to either one of them so I expect this to go on for a while. Fuck.
Feeling low? There's someone else out there that's having a worse day than you. Trust me.