toxic rubber mulch being touted by the rubber, oil industry

You all should read this and distribute to all the gardeners and environmentalists you know,
http://www.paghat.com/rubbermulch.html

The Earthship folks (www.earthship.org) have perfected the method of building walls for houses out of tires. They're compacted full of 100-300 lbs. of dirt and stacked like bricks. They don't outgas or leach unless exposed to sunlight and once encases in dirt, concrete, and plaster half an estimated life of 500+ years.

Of course, using trash to build one's house is as Anti-American as one can get, I suppose...

I have heard of old tires being used to make effective new asphalt as well.

I have contracts with 15 motels and hotels in my area for collecting dryer lint - they make a bundle of it every day, as you can imagine. I have a machine that sprays a mixture of epoxy and alcohol onto the lint and then presses the lint into various shapes. As the alcohol evaporates and the epoxy hardens what you get are rock-hard recycled fiber blocks in any shape you can think of.

I've made some money on this too, I'm proud to say. A company that operates more than 7 local restaurants says that the life-size epoxy dryer lint pigs, cows and roosters that are placed at each of their restaurants are their best advertising. I am even negotiating with my home town for a contract to replace the aging town boundary lines with extruded, 2-inch diameter, epoxy-hardened dryer lint boundary lines.

The "professional engineers" who "work" for my town are poo-pooing my idea and are saying bad things about me but I have convinced 2 of the 11 council members to support me.

Just think about how many border and boundary lines are in the country! Millions of miles of aging boundary and border lines for towns, cities and states that can be replaced with epoxied, extruded dryer lint border lines that last for years and years. Just think of the possibilities there!

E-mail me if you want to get in on the ground floor on this 21st Century opportunity. Plastic and shredded tires are so Nineties ... get into the future with dryer lint!