In article , Janet Baraclough
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In article , Janet Baraclough
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With bans on this harmful toxic product already coming in Britain, the
American profiteers are more worried than ever.* Buying toxic waste cheap
to resell dearly to gardeners could well become illegal here too*.

Good on for the UK in preparing to ban this stuff in 2006. The
toxic-waste-for-your-gardens industry is busy right now trying to
stop the
ban from going into effect.

That completely misrepresents the UK situation, and btw, there is no
rubber-waste-for-your-garden industry here.

You may call that "not for gardens" but you're splitting hairs.

Merely refuting your misinformation about gardening in the UK. Again.

Janet.

You completely misrepresented a UK activist's clear statement about crumb
rubber used as filldirt as being directly about gardening. You then
revealed that you just completely didn't even know that crumb rubber is in
commercial compost sold in UK garden centers, used as surface coatings &
mulches & worse yet worked into soil, which will kill plants. Though truly
the bigger issue is it being heaped up as filldirt even in areas that will
be gardened & from whence it leaches heavy metals into waterways.

In combination you failed to read correctly simple clear sentences about
crumb rubber as artificial filldirt, & you proved only your lack of any
information at all (except what I told you & which you blindly reject)
about crumb rubber as used in UK landscapes. You have not refuted a
thing, & the only disinformation is yours.

Just because the toxic crap you buy in your garden centers to smear in
your yard is categorized under "bulking agent" instead of honestly as
"crumb rubber" doesn't make it magically less there. IF your "correction"
had been that UK g ardeners are tricked into using it without even knowing
it, then you might've been onto something. And even so, what I quoted was
about crumb rubber packed into all sorts of places as filldirt, including
most certainly where gardens are afterwards planted. So it's in the
gardens, & its in the products sold to gardeners, & its in the parks,
playgrounds, & sports fields. In 2006 it will be banned for many of these
uses, with too many loopholes to use it anyway.

So just stop pretending your disinformation is refutation; that degree of
dishonesty should be beneath you.

-paggers

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"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
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