Paper or Plastic? | Forums

[MadamTampini]

[MadamTampini]

[Omega_224]

Screw the environment, I'd use flourocarbon carriers if they looked cool. I choose plastic, just 'cause... uh... Just 'cause.

[Jackie Fiest]

When it comes to bags, paper.


When it comes to buying the products in the bags, plastic.

[MadamTampini]

Flourocarbon? What is that? Sounds like something that you would get from charcol and a flouresent light.

[Chimera87]

Well erm, easy call. Recycleble (sp?) plastics. Paper means cutting down trees. Although it's more "natural", it means destruction of our source of air. Plastics can be reused easily and it's a superfast process to make, in stead of cutting down trees, sizing them, sizing them more, etc...

Plastics is just melting of plastic spheres and forming them into a shape.

[Omega_224]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by MadamTampini:
Flourocarbon? What is that? Sounds like something that you would get from charcol and a flouresent light. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Or something that sounds like it. I wasn't sure I got the right word. It's probably something else, but the stuff they used (or still do use) in refrigerators, for example, as a coolant or something. Supposedly it produces bi-products that deteriorate the O-Zone layer... or something. It's supposed to be dangerous to the environment. *shrugs*

[quillan]

Chloroflourocarbons, or CFCs for short. The name comes from the combination of Chlorine, Flourine, and Carbon in the molecular structure. Supposedly CFCs destroy the ozone layer, and so they've been restricted. 20 years or so back, CFCs were used as the propellant gas in pressurized spray cans for things like cleaners, hair spray, and paint. R-12 refrigerant is a CFC also, which is why it's been restricted in some countries.

[MadamTampini]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Chimera87:
Well erm, easy call. Recycleble (sp?) plastics. Paper means cutting down trees. Although it's more "natural", it means destruction of our source of air. Plastics can be reused easily and it's a superfast process to make, in stead of cutting down trees, sizing them, sizing them more, etc...

Plastics is just melting of plastic spheres and forming them into a shape. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Yes but you know it takes alot of chemicals to make plastic bags. The process of making plastic bags also emits alot of chemicals into the atmosphere.

[GrImReApEr192]

im not even goin to give my input on this...people are using too much big words for me to understand...what is plastic?