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It's Not Easy Being Green October 2018

Posted by Ben Stevens on

It's Not Easy Being Green October 2018

One of the more noted green movements of lately is the move to remove plastic straws from restaurants.  I got thinking about it and McDonalds restaurant has served over 300 billion customers since its inception.  According to research it takes over 200 years for a plastic straw to decompose, so that means there is easily billions of straws around the world in our landfills.  I always had a hard time grasping the difference between a million of something and a billion.  Then I read that 1 million seconds is roughly 12 days, whereas, 1 billion seconds is 31.7 years.  That...

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