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Me, I'd rather see animal pelts used than more non-biodegradable polymer filling the landfills.
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It would mean farmers turning all their agricultural waste - which contains carbon that the plants have spent the summer sequestering - into non-biodegradable charcoal, and burying it in the soil.
Boing Boing 2009
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It has had enthusiastic reviews in the US, but its lasting significance might be the attention it draws to the nightmarish amounts of non-biodegradable waste now polluting the world's seas, and the impact of "gyres", the circular currents which gather it all remorselessly together until great islands of garbage form in the vortex.
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Me, I'd rather see animal pelts used than more non-biodegradable polymer filling the landfills.
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I pointed out that using non-biodegradable things to do our experiment defeated the purpose of learning that the greenhouse buildup is bad.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Some Suggestions for Humor-Writers 2009
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Then there are the plastics and non-biodegradable junk that will initially pollute the Japanese coastline and will then move out to sea, eventually reaching the north Pacific andthe western shores of North America.
John F. Bruno: Impacts of the Japanese Tsunami on Ocean Life John F. Bruno 2011
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"Before it was 50 percent non-biodegradable, non-renewable, that was the plastic based on oil and now we end up with 100 percent bio-degradable, bio-renewable material."
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Few people have seen this eternal resting place for our non-biodegradable waste that washes from land through rivers, streams and storm drains to a watery grave far from shore.
Lisa Kaas Boyle: TEDxGreatPacificGarbagePatch Videos Document Plastic Pollution Crisis and Solutions Lisa Kaas Boyle 2011
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Then there are the plastics and non-biodegradable junk that will initially pollute the Japanese coastline and will then move out to sea, eventually reaching the north Pacific andÂthe western shores of North America.
John F. Bruno: Impacts of the Japanese Tsunami on Ocean Life John F. Bruno 2011
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Any carbon bound up in non-biodegradable plastic is carbob not burned to produce CO2.
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