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AVOID THE USE OF PLASTIC BAGS

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According to "National Geographic News" (2003), an estimate by the Environmental Protection Agency of the United States, reveals that approximately consumed each year worldwide, between 500 billion and a trillion plastic bags. Less than 1% of the bags is recycled: It's more expensive to recycle a bag than to produce a new one. According to Jared Blumenfeld, Director of the Department of the Environment in San Francisco,
"There's harsh economics behind bag recycling plastic bags. Process and recycle one ton of plastic bags cost $ 4,000 =: the same amount sold in the commodities market to $ 32 = ".

So ... Where Do They Go?

A study by the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, showed oceangoing vessels together dumped 8 million pounds of plastic into the sea every year. The reason why the world's landfills were not overflowing with plastic was because most ended up in the ocean.

Bags find their way to the sea from storm drains and pipes of the urban centers. The bags are carried to different parts of our land and to our seas, lakes and rivers. Plastic bags have been found floating north of the Arctic Circle near Spitzbergen, and even farther south, in the Falkland Islands. According to the Waste Monitoring Program of the U.S. Navy, plastic bags account for more than 10% of the waste arriving at the edge of the costs.

photodegrade plastic bags, with the passage of time is broken down into smaller petrochemical and toxic polymers which eventually contaminate soils and waterways. As a consequence microscopic particles can form part of the food chain. According to report from the WWF in 2005, the effect on wildlife can be catastrophic.

Nearly 200 different species of marine life including whales, dolphins, seals and turtles die from plastic bags. They die after ingesting plastic bags which they mistake for food.

So ... What do we do?

If we use a cloth bag, we can save 6 bags a week. That's 24 bags a month. In other words, 288 bags a year. That is, 22,176 bags during an average lifetime. If only 1 in 5 people in the U.S. did this, would save 1,330,560,000,000 bags over a lifetime.

Bangladesh banned plastic bags. China banned free plastic bags. Ireland was the first in Europe to tax plastic bags in 2002. Thus, reduced consumption by 90%. In 2005, Rwanda has banned bags plastic. Israel, Canada, western India, Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Taiwan and Singapore have also banned or are in the process of banning plastic bags. On March 27, 2007, San Francisco became the first U.S. city. UU. to ban plastic bags.

Plastic bags are made from polyethylene: a thermoplastic that is obtained from petroleum. Reducing plastic bags will reduce the dependence on oil. China will save 37 million barrels of oil each year due to the ban on free plastic bags.

may do something drastic, cut the plastic!

AVOID THE USE OF PLASTIC BAGS.

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Christopher Tolkien talks about Sigurd and Gudrun

Christopher Tolkien has broken his silence to respond via fax to Guardian.co.uk a series of questions about the latest posthumous publication of a work of his father JRR Tolkien : The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun.

In this series of questions and answers Christopher talks about the difficulty of writing alliterative verses that make up this story (with a metric very tight and sturdy), consisting of two long poems on which he says has not that perform most editing or proofreading work. Christopher comments that have been encouraged to publish this work now because he has had more time, since the end of The History of Middle-earth to prepare the edition. Christopher
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really concerned that this work is not anything like most fans, since it is not about Middle-earth (although see the powerful influence that this work influenced the later mythology that Tolkien created) and mainly because it is written in verse, with a complex structure.

also have time to discuss why he wrote The Silmarillion as he did: first, because he had agreed to do with his father, and secondly, because they show the evolution of mythology (as subsequently supplemented with work in The History of Middle-earth ) would confuse readers, so he decided to work on a text "principal" that show the essence of the work, selecting and arranging his father's original in which a He was a minimal coherence. "After its publication," he continues, "I began what at first was a purely private study, A History of The Silmarillion, a thorough investigation and analysis of each page and passage in the writings of my father, leaving no stone without lifting, and while it evolved over the years became greatly enlarged in the History of Middle-earth in 12 books, which finally finished in 1996. In this he reveals the relationship between The Silmarillion published and the vast mass of writings of which was derived - but, of course, there [are] all the reasons and justifications for how they conducted the work. "

About The Children of Húrin said that the intention was to publish his father's 3 of the stories of The Silmarillion in separate volumes, and the most complete and "easier" to edit was for Christopher, the story of Turin Turambar .

Finally, Christopher says he does not remember to have corrected the errors in The Hobbit as a child, although his father said in a of his letters that he did, "so it must be true." She remembers how his father sent him the original Lord of the Rings as the writing was, as Christopher was fighting in World War II.

A really interesting read. If anyone is encouraged to translate the entire interview, please send it to us or post in the forum for those who can not read English can read it.

From: Elfenomeno - May 5, 2009