It’s all about No. 7

At first glance, it looks like the Larimer County Landfill wants my Primo Water bottles (see previous posts), now that it accepts plastics stamped Nos. 1 through 7.

Ah, but no. While the previously dreaded yogurt containers are now acceptable, compostable plastics – even those marked 5, 6 or 7, like the corn-based Primo bottles – are still verboten. So I’m still all about collecting empties and subjecting them to unspeakable scientific investigation. Preliminary findings are that even half full (or half empty, as it may be), the suckers are no match for the solar gain of…