Crapshoot, Waste, and Crude on The Green
The Sundance Channel’s new environmental program, The Green, has several very interesting episodes available for view online. Look at this list and see if you see what I do:
- Crapshoot: The Gamble with Our Wastes – dangerous sewer toxicity
- Waste = Food – planning true recycling of waste from the moment of manufacture
- A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash – when oil fields go dry
I see diapers.
Sewer Waste? I have seen lately how many people are flushing petro-chemical wastes down the toilet in the name of eco-diapers. What does this add to the toxic load of our wastewater treatment systems?
Waste = Food. To make diapers truly sustainable, everything left after the working life of a diaper needs to become food for another process.
Crude. I continually wonder why people are willing to use plastic, a product that originates as crude oil, to do a job that renewable resources do perfectly well.
