An Engineer's guide to Plastic in your garden.

Hey friends, I need to tell you a story about my past. Lets travel ALL THE WAY BACK to two nights ago when I woke up at 3AM for no reason, and I couldn't get back to sleep. Why couldn't I sleep? Well, I was couldn't stop thinking... "what kind of video can I leverage my engineering degree to bring more value to my community"...

Now I was much younger back in those days - all starry eyed and full of hope... and what I came up with is that I wanted to make a video on plastics. I know this is a really big concern in the Permaculture space, and well, the whole planet as a whole. We face a plastics crisis the likes of never before, with microplastics being discovered in the deepest areas of our oceans - places where no plastic should ever be. So last night I endeavored to make what I consider, and this is just my opinion:

THE GREATEST VIDEO ON PLASTICS THAT THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN.

And the best news is? For a small fee of $19.99 as a donation to my patreon page, you can gain access to.... LOL just joking. That ain't me. I honestly want as many people to get this info as possible, to help balance out all the pinterest water bottle DIY garden idea cancer factories.

Also, this way, with the video being free, you can share it with all your friends, so that I can take over the internet and become the most powerful person on earth.

So what is the video? I'm going to talk about all the concerns with plastics, specifically to address comments like "can I use this in my garden?", or "what type of plastic is best to use to start seeds with, or make a mini greenhouse with", or at the very least know ways to limit our exposure, and to reduce the degradation mechanisms as low as possible.

Really, it's just a 22 minute 43 second video that intends to be "THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE ON PLASTICS AND MOST IMPORTANT VIDEO IN THE HISTORY OF HUMANS!".

No seriously though, it's a good video, and I think it'll help a lot of people out.

Peace and love.
Keith

3:25 Start of video (science), talking about degredation mechanisms (try to control these to the extent practical), and chemicals of concern in plastic, then the transmission pathway.

11:55 Types of Plastic, including examples, as well as a strategy for which ones to use if you are going to use some.

19:54 Summary/Conclusion

/edit I think I misspell Phthalates as Phphalates, in a few places. Please forgive me.
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