I was reading
shadeofgray 's posts today about nuclear everything and started thinking. Uh-oh. We are in the center of at least two nuclear power plants here in MD. I'm sure there are more but I haven't seen them yet.
The life of nuclear waste is a million years? And here my little green recycling self is worried about plastic bags...
So I looked it up. The best that I could find was from
http://www.cleanup.com.au/au/Campaigns/plastic-bag-facts.html in Australia. They list the life of a plastic bag being anywhere from 20 to 1,000 years. I couldn't find very much on the half life of plastic although I did run into a site called Black Cat Systems
http://www.blackcatsystems.com/science/radprod.html which had radioactive products listed on it.
Greenfeet.net has some more information on it, but basically what I've found (and that I already knew) is that plastic bags last for, at the very least, hundreds- if not thousands of years in a landfill. But that really doesn't compare with a million years for nuclear waste now does it? It makes me wonder what is worth fighting for when this is what we're living with today... that said I'm off to drop off my recycling at the landfill. What are you going to do today?
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