Friday, April 4, 2008

Post Office Rubber Bands Are Biodegradable

http://www.hippyshopper.com/2008/04/curse_of_the_po.html

Hippyshopper [UK]
4 April 2008

Curse of the Post Office red rubber band

There are people all over the UK getting up in arms about a seemingly recent problem inflicted on us by our postmen: the dropping of red rubber bands on our pavements, garden paths and porches. In one unfortunate case, one of the bands was seen around the neck of a duck. So what's going on?

Rumours about postmen dropping the items in order to 'find their way home' have circulated, but more worryingly, some postmen have claimed off-the-record that they are advised to drop the rubber bands which they are told will 'biodegrade'; a theory we are going to conduct an experiment to test in coming weeks. We've got a genuine, Post Office issue rubber band immersed in water in our kitchen and will be monitoring its progress. [...]

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