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From: eklhad@ihuxv.ATT.COM (K. A. Dahlke)
Newsgroups: sci.misc
Subject: Nuker Plates
Message-ID: <2532@ihuxv.ATT.COM>
Date: 21 Mar 88 14:45:31 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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We're up to 60 nuker plates and climbing, and something has to be done.
Understand, I don't eat a frozen dinner every night, maybe once or
twice a week, cuz I'm lazy and I like them, but after a year or two,
you get quite a stockpile of those plastic plates.
I have never thrown them out since: they probably represent 15% of the cost,
they make convenient sandwich plates and pie plates,
and I'm uneasy about the image of landfills loaded with plastic plates that
take 100,000 years to degrade, or incinerators that convert them into
noxious poisonous carcinogens.  But there's only five people in
our house, and we just don't need 60 nuker plates.

Question:
What are these things made of?
How many centuries are required to degrade this material?
Can it be burned or otherwise eliminated safely?
Can these plates be recycled, and if so where?
What do you do with your nuker plates?
What about other bulk plastic items?
-- 
		I do more all day -- than most people do before 9 A.M.
	Karl Dahlke			  ihnp4!ihuxv!eklhad