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| Subject: | Is plastic modelling environmentally responsible? |  |
| Date: | May 2, 2007 |
| From: | Terence Teo | |
After stumbling across another carton of my models in my workroom the other day, my wife asked me if I was trying to stockpile my kits in the event of a worldwide plastic shortage. After fending off another attempt to cull my collection, the thought stuck in my head: what if one day it was decreed that the manufacture of plastics of any kind was considered environmentally unacceptable? Think of it: no more model kits, and the ones already manufactured skyrocketing in prices on the blackmarket!. And what about this: actually building them would be considered an environmental crime, because you would have to get rid of all those plastic sprues, and how would that be done without contributing to some environmental impact of a detrimental nature!
I am not sure why this thought is bugging me right now, but what do you all think? Would you give up the hobby if you felt it was contributing to global warming? |
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 | Is plastic modelling environmentally responsible? - Terence Teo - May 2, 2007 |
| . . . Re: Is plastic modelling environmentally responsible? - Adam - May 2, 2007 |
| . . . Re: Is plastic modelling environmentally responsible? - Jerry Plettenberg - May 2, 2007 |
| . . . Re: Is plastic modelling environmentally responsible? - Ross Jarvis - May 2, 2007 |
| . . . Re: Is plastic modelling environmentally responsible? - Sean Langley - May 2, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: Is plastic modelling environmentally responsible? - Johannes Allert - May 2, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Is plastic modelling environmentally responsible? - Brian Bocchino - May 2, 2007 |
| . . . Re: Is plastic modelling environmentally responsible? - Dan LeClair - May 2, 2007 |
| . . . We will carve models from bones and wood - Kip Rudge - May 2, 2007 |
| . . . Re: Is plastic modelling environmentally responsible? - Andrew Herbert - May 2, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: Is plastic modelling environmentally responsible? - John Eary - May 2, 2007 |
| . . . Re: Is plastic modelling environmentally responsible? - Edward Hall - May 2, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: Is plastic modelling environmentally responsible? - Dan Austen - May 2, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Is plastic modelling environmentally responsible? - Mark Austen - May 2, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Give Terence a break. - Paul A. Owen - May 2, 2007 |
| . . . You need to see... - David Byrden - May 2, 2007 |
| . . . Fundamentally, no luxury item is. . . - Kurt Laughlin - May 2, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Its called N5H1, coming soon - Ken Hartlen - May 2, 2007 |
| . . . Re: Is plastic modelling environmentally responsible? - Terence Teo - May 2, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: Is plastic modelling environmentally responsible? - John Yarosh - May 2, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Is plastic modelling environmentally responsible? - Mark Austen - May 3, 2007 |
| . . . Re: Is plastic modelling environmentally responsible? - Mike Coleman - May 2, 2007 |
| . . . Re: Is plastic modelling environmentally responsible? - Kawika Liu - May 3, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: Is plastic modelling environmentally responsible? - Ken Adolphe - May 3, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Stroppy? - Edward Hall - May 3, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Stroppy? - Johannes Allert - May 4, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Exactly what I needed - Edward Hall - May 4, 2007 |
| . . . Re: Is plastic modelling environmentally responsible? - Michael Bedard - May 4, 2007 |
| . . . boxes - Michael Bedard - May 4, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Then what? - Bob Layton - May 5, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Then what? - Michael Bedard - May 6, 2007 |
| . . . the way i see it... - Glenn Bartolotti - May 6, 2007 |
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