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Plastics for posterity

How do you prevent valuable collectors' items from degrading?

Many environmentalists would tell you that plastics, such as those that litter our oceans and landscapes, last for ever. But ask the collectors and museum curators who have gathered at London's Victoria and Albert Museum this week, and they will say the opposite.

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Posted by Katharine Sanderson on May 25, 2007 05:42 PM |

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No environmentalist worth his salt would ever dream of telling you or anybody else that plastics last forever. It is their very degrading that is the environmental problem. If they didn't degrade they wouldn't communicate any noxious substances to the environment.

Posted by: Henrik Thiil Nielsen | May 26, 2007 02:06 PM

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