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Originally Posted by Undertoad
Recycling is important, and recycling plastic bottles is hard.
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Recycling is hard? The why was this article in the WSJ today?
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Missing milk crates used to wind up in college dormitories as bins for clothes, books and CDs. Today pilfered crates -- as well as pallets, bakery trays and other containers made from a pricey high-density plastic resin -- are going into grinders in recycling plants, say dairy and soft-drink industry loss-prevention officials and police. As oil prices have climbed, so too have prices for the petroleum-based resin used in milk crates, pallets and other such items. Prices of the resin jumped more than 40% after Hurricane Katrina, rising to 87.50 cents per pound in November, according to Plastics News. Today prices are hovering in the 70 cents-per-pound range, nearly double the price just three years ago.
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Not that the raft isn't cool n'all. 
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The fun thing about evolution (and science in general) is that it happens whether you believe in it or not.
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