|
Posted by 0tterbot on October 17, 2008, 10:05 pm
If you were Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options
> The corn starch ones are into their second round of seedlings. No sign
> of them breaking up yet, but I wonder if they are also a bit like
> bio-fuel - diverting food that would feed a family into things to make
> us feel better, when really we should be using milk cartons with the
> tops cut off and holes in the base???
i agree pretty much - better to use something that already exists. for all
the problems with petrochemical plastics, they make pots which last
virtually indefinitely & can be handed on from person to person & are
endlessly useful.
i suppose at some point in the future we will have more plant-based plastics
again - fully reusable and recyclable, one hopes.
there's a problem with peat pots too - in that peat takes a long time to
form & therefore shouldn't be harvested beyond a certain point. there's
simply not enough peat in the world for everyone because it won't form in
most conditions... so again i suspect re-using something (e.g. newspaper) to
make a transplantable pot is the better idea (unless one lives next door to
a sustainably-mined peat bog. ;-)
kylie
| 
XML site map