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Old 14 Jun 2008, 11:53 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Re: Natural Rubber - Non-Renewable?

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Originally Posted by lilchezza
therefore if there were no more trees, there would be no more rubber
Well by that logic oxygen shouldn't be a renewable source either and we should all be dead. I think renewable means it takes an exceedingly long time to replace, so much that it is deemed near impossible to replace it. (i.e. fossil fuels take millions of years). By that definition synthetic rubber should also be a renewable source.
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