ApocaDocs: Plague of the Urban Tumbleweeds

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Posted Thu Sep 11 2008: from San Diego Reader:


	Plague of the Urban Tumbleweeds http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1221170367 Put it this way: the average plastic bag has an estimated life of from 20 to 1000 years, depending on the bag and whom you talk to. So if William the Conqueror had buried his dog's doodoo in a plastic bag after the Battle of Hastings in 1066, the bag'd be wasting away just about now. We don't need to be creating history like that. A plastic bag's useful lifespan is, what, 20 or 30 minutes? However long it takes to get from the supermarket to home. Thereafter, it launches into a second career filling our landfills and clogging our streams, storm drains, oceans, fishes' bellies. And from there, perhaps, to our bellies. How bad is the problem? Green think tanks have had a field day conjuring up original ways to express the horror.

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But at least that doo-doo wouldn't be on William the Conqueror's dessicated boot.