I'm wondering if the poster was worried about knocking down rain
forests to plant rubber plantations?

According to what I've found on google, the productive life of a
rubber tree is about 35 years.


On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 9:04 PM, <johnp67544@...> wrote:
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>
> I may be wrong, but I always thought that collecting latex was done in a
> very similar manner to collecting maple sap from which to make syrup.
> Doesn't
> really hurt the trees; I believe that rubber trees are grown on plantations
> and just harvested on a schedule, but, again, I may be wrong.
>
> On Thu Jul 2, 2009, Linda wrote:
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>>Would love to know the source of the rubber -- whether it comes from
>>sustainable sources or whether the rainforest is being decimated to obtain
>>the "natural" rubber. Knocking down rainforests is not a good tradeoff,
>>IMO...
>
> John Price So. Cal. '05 silver 36407 total miles, 48.7 mpg lifetime average