New plant-based bottles will degrade in a year.

Oh no! We'll need to find a new global pollutant!

The Guardian: The end of plastic? New plant-based bottles will degrade in a year.

Beer and soft drinks could soon be sipped from “all-plant” bottles under new plans to turn sustainably grown crops into plastic in partnership with major beverage makers.

[Avantium] biochemicals company in the Netherlands hopes to kickstart investment in a pioneering project that hopes to make plastics from plant sugars rather than fossil fuels.
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“This plastic has very attractive sustainability credentials because it uses no fossil fuels, and can be recycled – but would also degrade in nature much faster than normal plastics do,” says [Avantium’s chief executive, Tom van Aken].

Avantium’s plant plastic is designed to be resilient enough to contain carbonate drinks. Trials have shown that the plant plastic would decompose in one year using a composter, and a few years longer if left in normal outdoor conditions. But ideally, it should be recycled, said Van Aken.

From "kickstart 'hopes to'" to "finished, completed successful product" is a long, long road.

If the new degradable bottles are successful, will that mean an end to all the ugly park benches made from recycled plastic? Awwwww, that's a shame.

Wind Turbine Blades Dumped In Landfills: 50,000 Tons Of Non-Recyclable Toxic Garbage.

SRSrocco Report: THE RENEWABLE GREEN ENERGY MYTH: 50,000 Tons Of Non-Recyclable Wind Turbine Blades Dumped In The Landfill.

Funny, no one seemed to consider what to do with the massive amount of wind turbine blades once they reached the end of their lifespan.  Thus, the irony of the present-day Green Energy Movement is the dumping of thousands of tons of “non-recyclable” supposedly renewable wind turbine blades in the country’s landfills.

Who would have thought? What’s even worse, is that the amount of wind turbine blades slated for waste disposal is forecasted to quadruple over the next fifteen years as a great deal more blades reach their 15-20 year lifespan.
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Hundreds of giant windmill blades are being shipped to a landfill in Wyoming to be buried because they simply can’t be recycled.  Local media reports several wind farms in the state are sending over 900 un-reusable blades to the Casper Regional Landfill to be buried. While nearly 90 percent of old or decommissioned wind turbines, like the motor housing, can be refurbished or at least crushed, fiberglass windmill blades present a problem due to their size and strength.
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Wyoming isn’t the only landfill accepting worn-out wind turbine blades. They are also being dumped in IOWA and SOUTH DAKOTA [sic].
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The wind turbine blades are a toxic amalgam of unique composites, fiberglass, epoxy, polyvinyl chloride foam, polyethylene terephthalate foam, balsa wood, and polyurethane coatings.

We won't ever have to worry about these toxins seeping into water supplies because that could never happen.
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SRSrocco Report Archived

World News Bits (and"WWCCD": What Would Chester Cheetos Do?)

* "Seattle's politics leans famously to the Left." Yet, after promising a written policy manual for dealing with major traffic and freeway incident.

Yet - it's been 19 MONTHS and still nothing. Well, those Liberal Seattle City Council Members are probably just taking their time to make sure they get it right. Efficiency with Liberalism. Right? From The Seattle Times.
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* What's it like having a brother who is an Islamophobe, fears for his life and fears death threat? Why, just ask Paul Wilders about his brother Geert. From Der Spiegel:

SPIEGEL: Mr. Wilders, for years you did not make any public statements about your brother Geert. But now you have criticized him via Twitter. Why?

Wilders: After the Berlin terrorist attack, Geert sent out a photo montage showing (German Chancellor) Angela Merkel with blood on her hands. It crossed a line.

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*  Italian President Sergio Mattarella says not to judge President Donald Trump too quickly. Corriere Della Sera News.
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* Portugal calls for the complete and total abolishment of the death penalty worldwide. Portugal News Online.  Yes, because as goes Portugal, so goes the world.
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* From the Southwales Evening Post: Man tries to kill wife with bow and arrow. It's not that trying to kill her was wrong, it's that he failed to buy a hunting license. /snark
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* At Alfonso Rachel: "The Regressive Left Protests Everything." Yes, they do, they do indeed. And bitterly and angrily so.
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* One of these things is not like the other. Can you tell which? Police nab pregnant woman with with marijuana in Cheetos Bag. Racine Journal Times.

WWCCD: What Would Chester Cheetos Do?

* This can't be good, from Courthouse News: PayPal accused of diverting Charity donations. 
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* Poll results: Positive reaction to President Donald Trump's speech. RTT News
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* From BBC: Scientists have discovered what they say could be fossils of some of the earliest living organisms on Earth. Below, image of one of the oldest fossils found:

Precedes Carbon Dating process.

* The Connecticut Post: A five cent surcharge on plastic bags has been approved for funding parks.

“The reality is, our state parks are in crisis,” said Sen. Ted Kennedy Jr., D-Branford, co-chairman of the committee.

Will we ever be truly free from "the" Kennedys?
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Group Seeks to Ban Plastic Bags in Duluth, MN

Your Mission is STUPID.

Ahhhh!  Another "feel good" movement is afoot.  This time it's 'Bag It, Duluth - For the Love of Place' is fighting the vile, evil plastic bag.

I have one and only one question for 'Do-Gooders With A Cause' people who are a part of this group:

Did you use DISPOSABLE DIAPERS with your children or did your parents use them on you when you were an infant ?????  YES or NO? 

Answer the question. If you did, and you now seek to ban or place a fee on plastic bag, you are a hypocrite.

How long does it take the diaper wrapped around little precious' ass to biodegrade?

Some say between 200-500 years. 

 "500 years..which mean your poop from when you were a baby is still in the landfills!"

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....classic data say everywhere from two hundred to 500 years.

Other Sites state plastic bags take between ten and 100 years to decompose.

Plain plastic bag asks Duluth, "What have I done to deserve this?"

A study from 2009 found: 

... that plastic breaks down at cooler temperatures than expected, and within a year of the trash hitting the water. 

 From the Orange County Register from 2014: 

...a comprehensive analysis recently undertaken by Reason Foundation, which looked at the impact of plastic bag bans on the environment, found these claims don’t stand up to scrutiny. Indeed, the ban is likely to do more harm than good both to the environment and to people’s pocketbooks.

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Banning them has practically no impact on the amount of litter generated, the amount Californians pay for waste disposal, or the risk of flooding. In fact, when plastic bags were banned in San Francisco, the county’s own studies showed that litter actually increased. 

Forget the research.  Deny the studies showing banning plastic bags increased litter. Forget about the facts.  Why...You're On A Mission! 

These groups of do-gooders - who do no good at all except increase their own self-esteem - feel like they are "Really contributing to [insert valiant cause here]", are really mis-focused.

Don't bother to work for something really significant, like, say, Japan and the Fukushima nuke meltdown which STILL IS DUMPING GOD ONLY KNOWS HOW MANY GALLONS OF RADIOACTIVE WATER INTO THE OCEAN.

Grab a mop and a bucket.  Head over to Japan.  Start cleaning up.  Bring some Pine-Sol with you and get to work.

Cigarettes are evil. Cigars are evil. Sugar is evil. Trans-fat is evil. Alcohol is evil. Anything not grown organically is evil. GMO is evil. Gluten is evil. Soy is evil (okay, soy is evil...at least for men...I'll even admit to that). Tanning is evil. Styrofoam is evil. BPA's are evil. Butter is evil. Meat is evil. Gambling is evil. Dairy is evil. Enjoying life and having fun...you guessed it...evil.

It's no different from the one person who rides their bicycle to work every day, not for the exercise -- and they will tell you this -- but to help save the earth by not using fossil fuels.  There isn't one item in your house, condo, apartment or garage that did not get there which, at some point, didn't use fossil fuel in one form or another.

The 'Ban The Plastic Baggers' will continue on their mighty mission to make a statement (to who, why and for what - I don't know) and to give themselves some unmeasurable quality of quantifying their existence.

If these folks really cared - - - they'd book the next flight to Fukushima and get busy.