>> ^GeeSussFreeK:

Reusing is always grand, but I wonder what the byproducts are. Like the whole plastic recycler most likely spitting out dioxins, I am unfamiliar with rubber as to know what it would break down into.


Maybe we can use the dioxins to poison people we don't like

Reusing is always grand, but I wonder what the byproducts are. Like the whole plastic recycler most likely spitting out dioxins, I am unfamiliar with rubber as to know what it would break down into.

So... Looks like people are still willing to voice opinions without doing preliminary research first?

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-microwave-dioxin.htm
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/d/dioxins.htm
http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/cookplastic.asp
http://www.foodsafety.gov/~dms/fdacplas.html
http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Microwave-Health-Problems.htm

In the age of the internet rumors may out-number facts, but the facts can be looked up.

I'm not convinced there is much wrong in this method.

What great, time-conserving way to artificially increase the content of carcinogenic dioxins in my leftovers!

This is sure to decrease my life expectancy by alteast 10 to 20 years, thanks Metacafe!

(As many people have already stated in the previous comments, do NOT do this)

"Birth defects are common. According to a U.S. Air Force study, one of every five children born to Air Force veterans who had sprayed Agent Orange had a minor or serious birth defect. The birth defects weren't caused by Agent Orange. The same rate of birth defects was observed in men who had never sprayed Agent Orange.

It makes far more sense to treat illnesses and birth defects in Vietnam as they are treated in other countries. To spend money on efforts to link Agent Orange with common diseases that have many known causes is to squander funds that can treat suffering people. To barrack and parade deformed children in "Peace Villages" may elicit sympathy, but it's certainly degrading to children who already have burdens to bear. Richer countries have spent billions investigating possible links between diseases and birth defects and Agent Orange and the dioxin in it. They have found nothing convincing."

Agent Orange was the nickname given to a powerful herbicide and defoliant used by the U.S. military in its Herbicidal Warfare program during the Vietnam War. Agent Orange was used from 1961 to 1971, and was by far the most used of the so-called "rainbow herbicides" used during the program. Degradation of Agent Orange (as well as Agents Purple, Pink, and Green) released dioxins, which have caused harm to the health of those exposed during the Vietnam War.

Agents Blue and White were part of the same program but did not contain dioxins. Studies of populations highly exposed to dioxin indicate increased risk of various types of cancer and genetic defects; the effect of long term low level exposure has not been established. Since the 1980s, several lawsuits have been filed against the companies who produced Agent Orange, among them being Dow Chemical and Monsanto. U.S. veterans obtained $180 million in compensation in 1984, while Australian, Canadian and New Zealand veterans also obtained compensation in an out-of-court settlement the same year.

In 1999, 20,000 South Koreans filed a lawsuit in Korea; in January 2006, the Korean Appeal Court ordered Monsanto and Dow to pay $62 million in compensation to about 6,800 people. However, no Vietnamese have obtained compensation, and on March 10, 2005 Judge Jack Weinstein of Brooklyn Federal Court dismissed the lawsuit filed by the Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange against the chemical companies that produced the defoliants/herbicides.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_orange