oaf@mit-vax.UUCP (Oded Feingold) (08/19/85)
I have an idiosyncratic reason to advocate non-disposable cloth
diapers. It's irritating to go to the beach and find myself swimming
past a disposable, or find one in my front yard, delivered airmail by
a passing car.
For the same reason, I think soft drinks (and beers, why not?) should
come in SOLID glass jars, and carry a 25 cent deposit. But I stray.
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Oded Feingold MIT AI Lab. 545 Tech Square Cambridge, Mass. 02139
OAF%OZ@MIT-MC.ARPA {harvard, ihnp4!mit-eddie}!mitvax!oaf 617-253-8598alan@sun.uucp (Alan Marr, Sun Graphics) (08/21/85)
In article <665@mit-vax.UUCP> oaf@mit-vax.UUCP (Oded Feingold) writes: >I have an idiosyncratic reason to advocate non-disposable cloth >diapers. It's irritating to go to the beach and find myself swimming >past a disposable, or find one in my front yard, delivered airmail by >a passing car. > >For the same reason, I think soft drinks (and beers, why not?) should >come in SOLID glass jars, and carry a 25 cent deposit. But I stray. >-- > >Oded Feingold MIT AI Lab. 545 Tech Square Cambridge, Mass. 02139 >OAF%OZ@MIT-MC.ARPA {harvard, ihnp4!mit-eddie}!mitvax!oaf 617-253-8598 Couldn't have said it better myself. --- {ucbvax,decwrl}!sun!{amarr} "Extraordinary how potent cheap music is." Noel Coward
jmc@riccb.UUCP (Jeff McQuinn ) (08/22/85)
> I have an idiosyncratic reason to advocate non-disposable cloth > diapers. It's irritating to go to the beach and find myself swimming > past a disposable, or find one in my front yard, delivered airmail by > a passing car. > > For the same reason, I think soft drinks (and beers, why not?) should > come in SOLID glass jars, and carry a 25 cent deposit. But I stray. > -- I agree but your attacking symptoms, not the problem. Most states have anti-littering laws. Has anyone ever seen somebody get ticketed for littering? I get so angry when I find my yard littered with beer cans on Saturday morning. I mean really, the litterer is obviously drinking in the car and probably under 18 to boot! If it's not beer cans then it's the 5 lbs of paper supplied with each Big Mac (although for some reason I find the trash from White Castle far more disgusting then from anywhere else). Jeff McQuinn just VAXing around
stevev@tekchips.UUCP (Steve Vegdahl) (08/26/85)
> > It's irritating to go to the beach and find myself swimming > > past a disposable, or find one in my front yard, delivered airmail by > > a passing car. > I agree but your attacking symptoms, not the problem. Most states have > anti-littering laws. Aside from littering, disposable diapers are becoming a non-trivial ecological problem. According to our local paper, one sixth of residential garbage (by volume) is disposable diapers. There is talk about putting a surcharge on disposable diapers in Oregon. I'm not sure I understand the logic of this, as we already pay to have our garbage picked up. If using disposable dipes causes us to need two cans instead of one, our garbage bill will increase. Steve Vegdahl Computer Research Lab. Tektronix, Inc. Beaverton, Oregon