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06-25-07 | 05:46 PM

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Raiyn

I drink your MILKSHAKE

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From: St. Petersburg, FL

Bikes: 2003 Specialized Rockhopper FSR Comp, 1999 Specialized Hardrock Comp FS, 1971 Schwinn Varsity

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Originally Posted by sdime

Let's assume an average cyclist use one plastic bottle per year and an average cyclist cycle for 40 years. That's forty bottles per cyclist. Take that and times by total number of cyclists in the world. I'll guess that's a huge number. Besides, these bottles take hundreds of years to decompose. I prefer to use zero plastic bottle.

Again Bottles last WAY longer than a year. Most of mine are over 5 years old at this point, and the ones I've retired have been used for everything from shims to seedling pots.

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