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A Paper Alloy To Replace Plastic Cases
xwwt writes "In response to a paper by Greenpeace's Guide to Greener Electronics, PEGA Design & Engineering has developed a new product that is intended to replace plastic shell material in computer equipment and electronics. The product contains a combination of paper and polypropylene (PP) which aids in recycling efforts and is intended to keep non-recyclable materials out of landfills. The PP should break down in sunlight and can be reclaimed. There is concern that polypropylene cannot be separated from the paper fiber and brings into question how the material will be recycled. As poster Paul Davis points out, it might have been better to use polylactic acid. Ultimately, it raises the question: is this truly a recyclable material?"
The PP should break down in sunlight and can be reclaimed.
Well, it did for a while.
Have gnu, will travel.
They will just protest even more claiming that those electronics are "made of dead trees".
Brought to you be the people who think maybe the geeks are getting out of the basement a little TOO often.
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make it out of chocolate and everyone will want it and have to buy new ones regularly.
Ninjas don't carry tic tacs
It is our God-given right to throw plastic away. What kind of America would this be if I couldn't just chuck my non-biodegradable products into the nearest ditch!
Quit your social engineering. What are you, some sort of communist?
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
You wouldn't pump air in to generate methane
Yes, I would.
Err - sorry. For a moment there, I thought this was one of those silly RIAA anti-piracy commercials.
Well, whatever. Maybe I wouldn't pump air in to generate methane, but I'd still download a car, given the opportunity. :p
Well, it's my 'God Given Right', to buy stuff that doesn't break, not ever. Buy it once, last a lifetime.
Fuck recyclable, give me government mandated, cut the testicles off the manufacturing executives, life time warranties.
Let's see evolution in action, want shoddy products out of the market, let's remove the evolutionary opportunities of people who make shoddy products.
Last a lifetime, don't need no recycling, we'll have a whole lot less rubbish to deal with. For you recyclers I will accept the compulsory recycling of packaging of life time warranty products. Now that's from the gut grump old man thinking ;D.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen