PLASTIC NEUTRAL - One small way to make plastic extinct

Hi y'all.. manufacturing plastics uses up tons of energy -- just like batteries, as mentioned in my 'change' for 2007. One website states that it takes 50X the energy to make an small non-rechargeable AA battery than the battery actually produces -- not to mention the waste disposal issues. Think of plastic as you would a non-rechargeable battery, then.

I'd going to try to be somewhat "plastic-neutral" by reUSEing my plastic. Everybody here can help become plastic-neutral, too. How? Give my summer school students your **clean** plastic salad boxes, tubes, PVC pipes (from construction renovation), plant pots, shoe boxes, salad spinners, yogurt containers, and any other object that could conceivably made into a musical intrument -- where they will be used to teach inventive, creative, recycling -- at the Sustainable Music Factory. I'll provide drop off locations - school and college locations in Vancouver, West Van, and North Van in a follow up post.

Note that these kids won't just be bashing the trash into bongos and drums -- instead, they'll also be creating diatonic tuned instruments -- banjos and violin-like instruments that the students will keep because they'll be busking, like the Human Carillon, with their plastic creations, too (when they get of age, earning a living without getting on the 'corporate jjob' treadmill, hopefully. Or become craftspeople or invenors.)

I'd like to know how many people on this board would like to give us their reUSEable plastic trash? C'mon, let's see if you can walk your talk.

But, if you've got a better idea, let's hear it.

Funtime question: What's brown and sounds like a bell?