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Apr 12Liked by Thomas J Shepstone

The reason the structure are they way they is because it's economical compare to other progress, even when take negative externalities-which for the most part society has already caulated via fines, fees, & regulation. Vehicles have been using more and more plastic polymers, as strong as steel, to lower the weight of the vehicles to meet emissions, pollution, & fuel regulations. Could they use other materials, possibly. The secondary benefit for using plastic in this capacity is that a lighter car deals to this wear & tear of the rubber parts, road, and tire, thereby lowering particular materials(tires & asphalt), fuel consumption, & manufacturing energy consumption with assoicate pollution. In a sense the use of plastics has help sequestered a lot of pollution. In reverse EVs that weight more creat higher demand for asphalt and creat more tire pollution.

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Apr 12Liked by Thomas J Shepstone

You care about the liberal framing of climate change and emissions

I want to reduce plastic usage because “it’s turning the freaking frogs gay”.

We are not the same.

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Apr 12Liked by Thomas J Shepstone

Not too long ago before the enviroterrorists in NY took over the Legislature, polyethylene bags of a certain thickness were commonly used at most retail facilities as opposed to the flimsy film like bags that would easily break and become an environmental issue. The prior material could easily be reused and help reduce the waste stream. Unfortunately our legislators did not have the foresight to understand that in order to achieve the solution they were looking for it would have been best to educate people to reuse the thicker material for many other purposes like relining your small waste baskets picking up your dog poop or any other way of reusing it so that that material could go to a landfill/energy recovery facility for proper disposal. Once again our so-called Representatives have failed us.

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