Originally Posted by Bob Dole (Post 11825518)

Our city recycling program explicitly requires plastic bottles to have the lids removed.

Bob Dole now knows why.

Originally Posted by MahiMike (Post 11825554)

I hate the offseason.

Originally Posted by Rain Man (Post 11825411)

I was thinking about this today.

I had a Coke, and as you know, the bottle is sealed. I finished my liquid poison and started to throw it away. As a neat person, I put the lid back on, and then gasped with alarm as I understood the implications.

I present to you the following facts:

1. Plastic soda and water bottles degrade very slowly over thousands of years.
2. The lids on these bottles seal tightly.
3. If you put the lid on before throwing it away, you essentially seal air into the bottle.
4. The earth is a closed system.

If you put all of these pieces together, the truth becomes evident. If you put the lid on your soda bottle before throwing it away, you seal away some air into a container that won't degrade for thousands of years. In essence, you're removing air from the environment.

If we keep doing this, we will all eventually die of suffocation as all of the atmosphere ends up in landfills inside sealed soda bottles and water bottles. It's just a matter of time.

So when you throw your bottle away, don't put the lid on it or we'll all die. Or I guess you could recycle it.

Originally Posted by rabblerouser (Post 11825658)

Awesome.

Do you mind if I steal this for my fb status??

Originally Posted by AndChiefs (Post 11825683)

Actually, when garbage arrives at the landfill it is crushed by a large machine called a compactor. This is after it is compacted in the truck on the way there.

The vast, vast majority will have enough pressure on them to flatten and pop the cap off.

Breathe easy, fellas.

Originally Posted by AndChiefs (Post 11825683)

Actually, when garbage arrives at the landfill it is crushed by a large machine called a compactor. This is after it is compacted in the truck on the way there.

The vast, vast majority will have enough pressure on them to flatten and pop the cap off.

Breathe easy, fellas.

Originally Posted by Rain Man (Post 11825696)

Vast majority? So you're saying that this process may slow down our eventual asphyxiation, but it won't stop it.

Originally Posted by ROYC75 (Post 11825702)

Those poor people buried alive in the landfills, I had hope for them after Rain Man's findings.

Originally Posted by AndChiefs (Post 11825711)

Well you can at least rest easy knowing that they died quickly and didn't suffer. :)

Originally Posted by Rain Man (Post 11825696)

Vast majority? So you're saying that this process may slow down our eventual asphyxiation, but it won't stop it.