LucyDuke
staring at the clock
I'm of the belief carbonation is disgusting.
Why's that?
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Why's that?
Heretic_Cata
We're gonna live forever
Can't tell the difference, but i voted for plastic because lucy said so.
Disgustipated
Deity
just a personal preference. After not drinking soda for a while, and then going back to it last week for a few ounces, I found the carbonation annoying, and it stings my mouth. I'd rather have iced tea if I wanted a cool drink with caffeine.
rugbyLEAGUEfan
Deity
Note to self . Don't team up with Disgustipated come the zombie apocalypse .Funny , but not the toughest dude around around.
Disgustipated
Deity
LOL well, I'll have to make other plans then.
danjuno
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Styrofoam, because it doubles as a snack. 
Hygro
soundcloud.com/hygro/
Lol how does that follow from what I wrote?So nobody ever had hypothyroidism before the Industrial Revolution?
edit: i'm with disgustipated, I don't really like carbonation all that much.
LucyDuke
staring at the clock
K cool. It sounded like you were saying it's objectively bad, which would be really weird.
To me, "modern age" in this instance means after humans started seriously polluting the environment with toxins during the Industrial Revolution.
I live with hypothyroidism every day. It nearly killed me before I got a proper diagnosis. I don't know whether I have my genetic heritage to "thank" or my exposure to all the toxic crap of, as you say, the 'modern age.'
Hygro
soundcloud.com/hygro/
I'm sensing a certain indignation here, and I don't know where it's coming from or why.
Do you understand that just because I'm suggesting modern toxicity has lead to hypothyroidism being common, it doesn't mean I'm saying that hypothyroidism was not a problem before these pollutants?
Perfection
The Great Head.
Collectible novelty cup!
Plastics are recyclable, but most of them not very easily or cheaply. Unless you're just converting them to fuel. They burn really well, with many types having as much as 3 times the energy content per pound as coal.
For straight recycling, it is expensive to separate it out from the rest of the waste stream in usable amounts. But it can be used for some things if you do.
So doable, generally not practical.
madviking
north american scum
I can go into the chemical properties of PS, but for the sake of everybody here, I'll just say that the structure of PS makes it very, very, very difficult to degrade into new plastics.
Clear <1> is the most recyclable, it can be turned into nearly anything. I think that <5> can be recycled to <5>, but it's hard.
<2> and <4> can only really be downcycled, turned into a lower-grade plastic. I think 2s get turned into 4s.
What you're sensing is frustration. I went from a reasonably active, mentally alert person to somebody incapable of being active, mentally foggy to the point of sleeping a minimum of 12 hours a day and tired all the rest of the time. People would say I was lazy, unmotivated, or "feeling down" about my grandmother's death (this hit me in spades a month or two after she died). They said I'd "snap out of it" in a couple of weeks.
Only I never did. It took my dad hauling me into the hospital to figure out exactly what was wrong and how to fix it. And even then I had to learn to get tough with my own doctors and nurses because they were trying to tell me things that made no sense.
I am frustrated because I don't know why this happened in the first place. I don't know if it's hereditary (another legacy from my mother's side of the family, since nobody on my dad's side had this problem), or environmental (I spent a lot of years in chemistry labs), or if I just happen to be one of the statistics of people in Alberta who get sick as a result of all the environmental contamination we have here due to the gas and oil wells.
Some people re-use it if they can clean it. It should never be re-used for foodstuffs, though. As for recycling... well, some recycling programs are equipped for different kinds of plastics. Around here, some plastics go to recycling, some go to the dump because the recyclers won't take them, and thank goodness we can finally turn in things like milk and juice containers for a little money at the depot.
Styrofoam cups...? Read the webcomic "Fuzzy Knights" sometime (I think it might still be online somewhere). The guy who did that webcomic used styrofoam cups, pipe cleaners, and duct tape to make some of his characters.
As for actual recycling of that stuff, I dunno.
