http://plasticless.com/2009/01/11/the-bicycle-helmet-reduce-reuse-or-recycle/ Tips and strategies to help the environment by cutting back on plastic in our everyday lives. Sat, 04 Sep 2010 09:05:25 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://plasticless.com/2009/01/11/the-bicycle-helmet-reduce-reuse-or-recycle/comment-page-1/#comment-1265 Reduce plastic waste :: PlasticLess.com » Blog Archive » When A Problem Comes Along… Fri, 15 May 2009 21:46:54 +0000 http://plasticless.com/?p=260#comment-1265 [...] If you are ever planning a costume that involves headgear, reuse helmets or safety hats rather than making something from [...] [...] If you are ever planning a costume that involves headgear, reuse helmets or safety hats rather than making something from [...]

]]> http://plasticless.com/2009/01/11/the-bicycle-helmet-reduce-reuse-or-recycle/comment-page-1/#comment-904 Richard Keatinge Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:23:32 +0000 http://plasticless.com/?p=260#comment-904 The main trouble with bicycle helmets is not libertarianism. The trouble is that they probably don't work - laws have stopped a lot of people cycling and have done nothing for head injury rates, see http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/332/7543/722-a. It appears that helmets break easily, but don't absorb the impact, try reading the helmet engineers quoted in the Wikipedia article. A broken helmet has simply failed. Helmets have also strangled some young children who were wearing helmets while playing off their bicycles. At my moderately advanced age it's far too dangerous not to cycle - regular cycling, Danish style, not too far, not too fast, nearly halves the death rate, see http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/160/11/1621 All-Cause Mortality Associated With Physical Activity During Leisure Time, Work, Sports, and Cycling to Work. Andersen et al, Arch Intern Med. 2000;160:1621-1628. To be sure, in Tunisia things may be different to Denmark. But the waste of plastic is the same in any country. The main trouble with bicycle helmets is not libertarianism. The trouble is that they probably don’t work – laws have stopped a lot of people cycling and have done nothing for head injury rates, see http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/332/7543/722-a. It appears that helmets break easily, but don’t absorb the impact, try reading the helmet engineers quoted in the Wikipedia article. A broken helmet has simply failed. Helmets have also strangled some young children who were wearing helmets while playing off their bicycles. At my moderately advanced age it’s far too dangerous not to cycle – regular cycling, Danish style, not too far, not too fast, nearly halves the death rate, see http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/160/11/1621 All-Cause Mortality Associated With Physical Activity During Leisure Time, Work, Sports, and Cycling to Work. Andersen et al, Arch Intern Med. 2000;160:1621-1628. To be sure, in Tunisia things may be different to Denmark. But the waste of plastic is the same in any country.

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