Re: buying it used = absolution

["Timothy Mungenast" <mungenast@earthlink.net>]

they used it for pallets?!? 
and if that weren't screwed enuf, they tossed them away?!? 
aaaaaaarrrrrrrrgh!
wood is sacred stuff, to be used with reverence. 
jesus, who *are* these people?
(okay, deep breaths, inhale, exhale... okay, i feel better now....)


> [Original Message]
> From: samba - <sambacomet@hotmail.com>
> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> Date: 1/23/2005 1:39:53 AM
> Subject: Re: buying it used = absolution
>
>   At one time I was involved in making tuned wooden percussion
instruments 
> and we discovered that there were hundreds of pallets made of tropical 
> hardwoods to be had around the port of Portland.Most of them get thrown 
> away.not even burned for heat.
>   I'd say that buying used is not necessarily absolution ,but it is less 
> wasteful. Getting the most of the resources we use is far better than
just 
> buying whatever's new and tossing it when the next one comes along
>
>