Strange’s Second Life Blog

A lot of times, I get Google Alerts for things that I never really asked for. One of my “keyphrases” that I have it find for me is “second life”. You can probably imagine that I get some off-topic articles like “Man Gets Second Life Sentence” or “Woman Gets Second Life After Transplant”. Maybe you get some of these, too.

One of them that came in, just a little bit ago really just made me wonder.

“Second Life For Condoms In China” - No shit!! First, the condoms are used, then they’re “recycled” and made into hair bands. The kind of hair bands that women will put between their teeth while pulling their hair back into a pony tail.

Not only is China selling some pretty bad crap to companies throughout the rest of the world… they are also selling used rubbers to their own people. Rubbers that are used to protect against sexually transmitted diseases and could still contain bacteria and viruses despite being recycled.

You can get a bag of 10 of these hair bands for about three cents USD… that’s less than L$9!! While selling recycled condoms is illegal in the country, the Chinese industry is flooded with several harmful goods manufactured for domestic or foreign markets.

Here’s what really makes me wonder. I know that in the US, we recycle aluminum, glass, newspaper, and other items. We take the time to separate the items from the “regular” trash and often times have different containers to put the different items into, to be picked up.

How do people go about recycling condoms? Is there a special receptacle that people throw these into? Are used condoms such a problem to the environment that recycling them is better for Mother Nature? Who actually came up with this idea, in the first place and thought it was a good idea?

I know that this post had absolutely nothing to do with Second Life, but just think… with all of the apparent “flying penises” in Second Life, it’s a wonder that the Lifestyle or Trojan companies haven’t set up shop in-world. They could start offering “protection from griefers”, or something.

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