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Oil Price to Drive Out Plastic
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As Mother Earth struggles to cope with the bazillion pounds of plastic everywhere, rising oil prices may have the impact of reducing manufacturing of plastic.
Is the day coming when big old belching smokestakes of the steel and aluminum mills will be welcome? For example, Goodyear, the tire maker, prefers natural rubber rather than synthetic made from oil. Palm oil is used in soap, instead of fake oil. More products are coming in concentrated form to reduce packaging.
The eco lovers hope this will force recycle rates from a few percent to closer to 90%.
“The conventional wisdom a couple of years ago was that oil did not have that much leverage over the economy,” said Daniel Yergin, chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates. “But now it plainly does. People are suddenly paying much more attention to their energy costs and trying to figure out how to manage them.”
(nytimes)
Read More: nytimes Via: treehugger
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