According to an amazing documentary I saw ("Blue Vinyl"), credit cards are among the many things we use in our daily lives which are made of vinyl. It seems that vinyl is one of those evil materials, in that both creating it and destroying it (burning) uses and creates such toxic by-products that one house fire involving a house with vinyl siding can lace an entire town with toxic fumes that get into the air, water and soil. So quite understandably, this worries me. The link to the credit cards? Well, I received my new credit cards lately, and I've been told to destroy my old ones. But how? Apparently, there's no special site that accepts this kind of toxic waste, mostly because governments see it as perfectly safe and harmless. So can anyone confirm whether credit cards are made of vinyl and perhaps offer suggestions on how to safely dispose of them? (I've heard that you just can't!) Thanks!
2007-03-13
03:38:16
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Kwyjibo
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