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River Factoid
Dec 7, 2006

River Factoid


Out of site, out mind - perhaps, but not out of your river. When it rains, stormwater washes litter into nearby streams and rivers where it can remain for months, years or even eons. Read how long these commonly discarded items linger, and think twice about littering :

Paper bag -- 1 month
Cigarette butt -- up to 5 years
Leather shoe -- 45 years
Plastic bottle -- 430 years
Aluminum can -- 200-500 years
Disposable diaper -- 550 years
Glass bottle or Styrofoam container -- Approx. 1 million years 
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Posted: Thursday December 7, 2006, 7:41 am
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Cheryl Sunshine Benson (524) 		Wednesday January 31, 2007, 8:08 am
disposable diapers I have to use, I can't pin the old ones & have bed coverings for when parlaized or cant move. I so sorry to see this and I need them until, hopefully I get the medical treatment I have been denind and not on my medical records. So what choise do I make, I have already beeen left lying in my own excrement for days without them, the government would not help my mother had to get theam at great cost. So what alternatives to disabled person with little care./help does?

Cheryl Sunshine Benson (524) 		Wednesday January 31, 2007, 8:11 am
actually glass breaks down often to pebbles it was made from SAND, althou those made by humans have taken on a longer life time time as stated. Archeology speaking, we think, we have learned so much from prior civilationss, because the glass didn;t break down, odd oxymoron isn;t it

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