Comments on: PLASTIC http://www.jwmalenda.com/blog/2008/06/15/black-plastic/ To explore and evaluate the true causes of social and environmental problems and how prejudice and emotion prevent solutions to those problems Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:43:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: Teddoid http://www.jwmalenda.com/blog/2008/06/15/black-plastic/#comment-215 Teddoid Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:16:02 +0000 http://www.jwmalenda.com/blog/2008/06/15/black-plastic/#comment-215 Ell I be! Maybe we can melt it down back into oil! Yea that's the ticket. Then we can get the gov to mandate (subsidize) black plastic fuel be used for everything. Then we can surely save the caribou and mosquitos from a terrible fate. Ell I be! Maybe we can melt it down back into oil! Yea that’s the ticket. Then we can get the gov to mandate (subsidize) black plastic fuel be used for everything. Then we can surely save the caribou and mosquitos from a terrible fate.

]]> By: Darrell Fichtl http://www.jwmalenda.com/blog/2008/06/15/black-plastic/#comment-193 Darrell Fichtl Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:36:43 +0000 http://www.jwmalenda.com/blog/2008/06/15/black-plastic/#comment-193 John: I've usually have a sharp mind and can, even during ridicules extremes, see some motivation that was the original cause of an action. The "black plastic" fiasco has, I'm afraid, perplexed me ever since it was started. I've seen it in Arizona, in the driest desert, spread out like Christmas wrap along roads, developments and individual house construction and modifications. For the life of me I've been unable to deduce what the idiot who thought this up was thinking. It does nothing to stop water, dust, dirt, grass or anything else of any material substance. What's really astounding is that it's so ubiquitous! Sounds more like "Atlas Shrugged" all the time. Stupid things done for unclear motives by incompetent individuals and because they declare it's the latest building code everyone else goes along like sheep. John:
I’ve usually have a sharp mind and can, even during ridicules extremes, see some motivation that was the original cause of an action.

The “black plastic” fiasco has, I’m afraid, perplexed me ever since it was started. I’ve seen it in Arizona, in the driest desert, spread out like Christmas wrap along roads, developments and individual house construction and modifications. For the life of me I’ve been unable to deduce what the idiot who thought this up was thinking. It does nothing to stop water, dust, dirt, grass or anything else of any material substance. What’s really astounding is that it’s so ubiquitous! Sounds more like “Atlas Shrugged” all the time. Stupid things done for unclear motives by incompetent individuals and because they declare it’s the latest building code everyone else goes along like sheep.

]]> By: Emil http://www.jwmalenda.com/blog/2008/06/15/black-plastic/#comment-181 Emil Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:24:55 +0000 http://www.jwmalenda.com/blog/2008/06/15/black-plastic/#comment-181 Let's just resign ourselves to the possibility that some artist is subtley insinuating his art into our environmental culture. Someday we'll look back at this creation and begin to appreciate what a wonderful contribution this has been to our lives. Reminds me of that creep, er chap I mean, who covered the countryside of some lucky people with a white plastic sheet that extended for miles and miles and miles and... Let’s just resign ourselves to the possibility that some artist is subtley insinuating his art into our environmental culture. Someday we’ll look back at this creation and begin to appreciate what a wonderful contribution this has been to our lives. Reminds me of that creep, er chap I mean, who covered the countryside of some lucky people with a white plastic sheet that extended for miles and miles and miles and…

]]> By: John http://www.jwmalenda.com/blog/2008/06/15/black-plastic/#comment-180 John Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:44:38 +0000 http://www.jwmalenda.com/blog/2008/06/15/black-plastic/#comment-180 Jason, I thank you for both reading my Blog and your comment First, Saudi Arabia is the major producer of the plastic and I did not say that they produced the 'end-product', plastic sheet. The US is buying the plastic from the manufacturer of the plastic, Saudi Arabia. We are trying to limit our use of petroleum and petroleum products so we should discontinue use of this ineffective and unnecessary petrochemical product no matter where it comes from. Second, if plastic sheet it is not a requirement on construction sites, then why is it being used? My purpose in writing this article is to stop its use, whether it is a 'requirement' or a scheme for contractors to make more money on construction sites. In short, money is being wasted that could be used for more significant and humanitarian causes at home. Jason,
I thank you for both reading my Blog and your comment
First, Saudi Arabia is the major producer of the plastic and I did not say that they produced the ‘end-product’, plastic sheet.
The US is buying the plastic from the manufacturer of the plastic, Saudi Arabia. We are trying to limit our use of petroleum and petroleum products so we should discontinue use of this ineffective and unnecessary petrochemical product no matter where it comes from.
Second, if plastic sheet it is not a requirement on construction sites, then why is it being used?
My purpose in writing this article is to stop its use, whether it is a ‘requirement’ or a scheme for contractors to make more money on construction sites.
In short, money is being wasted that could be used for more significant and humanitarian causes at home.

]]> By: Jason http://www.jwmalenda.com/blog/2008/06/15/black-plastic/#comment-179 Jason Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:06:10 +0000 http://www.jwmalenda.com/blog/2008/06/15/black-plastic/#comment-179 How does that insinuate that they had anything to do with the requirement? As a matter of fact, they don't make plastic products...they sell the plastic to companies that make the plastic products, and they do not get involved in end use. They most definitely had nothing to do with this "requirement" which is by the way, not a requirement. How does that insinuate that they had anything to do with the requirement? As a matter of fact, they don’t make plastic products…they sell the plastic to companies that make the plastic products, and they do not get involved in end use.

They most definitely had nothing to do with this “requirement” which is by the way, not a requirement.

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