Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Just to be perfectly clear, I wrote ONLY the first paragraph below. - -----Original Message----- From: Mark Rabiner [mailto:mrabiner@concentric.net] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 3:48 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] Plastics in Leica's (almost) Jason Hall wrote: > > Alistair wrote:- > > >the toll on the planet to extract that iron ore > > and convert it into bits of stainless steel (assuming we're not talking > > really silly gold) seems to me a little more onerous than getting the > > plastic stuff for swatches made from oil. But that is an under-informed > > opinion. Planetary toll wasn't the point of the message anyway > > I don't agree that plastic processing is any less Eco unfriendly than metal > mining and refining. > > Incidentally, is it not a chemical in plastic food packaging that's being > blamed for the high (relative) occurrence of hermaphrodite children being > born? Also cited as a possible carcinogen and responsible for various other ><Snip> I'm glad to be alive (although just barely with my flu) to be in on the hermaphrodite thread here on the lug. An issue I personally relate to! Will the hermaphrodites amongst us please tell us what their favorite lenses are!!! And their families choice of baggies! If your school lunch is fresher I say go for it. Mark :-) Rabiner