Yeah, I’ll agree. But damn, I’m sick to death of that crappy meme!
Yeah, but modern economy wants you to buy a new one ideally every year, so it doesn’t work for that.
Which includes fossil fuels & other things we burn & release as gases.
OK, no more fossil fuels. Now what?
Everything else? Right now I think advances in battery tech are what would help the most.
And maybe you could label Uranium and Thorium as “fossil” fuels if you want to be picky about it, but I think nuclear fission is the “bridge fuel” that we needed when we were sold natural gas instead.
Batteries aren’t energy sources, and frankly, nuclear power sucks.
Too many definitional loopholes.
We should restrict plastic severely and go back to paper, metal, glass, wood, and natural fiber cloth for all product packaging. It can be done, because that’s how we did it before plastic.
I’ll give you an idea…my wife keeps all the thin plastic food containers from when we bring food from a restaurant. Now we have hundreds of reusable containers. We don’t need to buy new plastic containers or plates!
So instead of selling the food in thin containers that eventually become planters or paint buckets, why not let people bring their own Tupperware or plates from home?
So instead of selling the food in thin containers that eventually become planters or paint buckets, why not let people bring their own Tupperware or plates from home?
Food safety reasons. The restaurant then has to clean any random container people bring in, because it represents a contamination risk to the kitchen.
Then they should use PVA based plastic containers. PVA can plasticized like other polymers but it can dissolve in water and get eaten by bacteria. In fact if done without dangerous chemicals you can eat pva.
What are you talking about?
No. Back up and read the original problem. How does using dissolvable containers help this problem? How does this let people bring in their own containers? You just saw a discussion involving plastic and decided to shoehorn in a reference to a completely irrelevant plastic product.
I think most people agree with this idea. There are two basic problems preventing it.
- There is a giant gap between what people believe they should be doing and what they’ll actually do voluntarily when faced with the slightest inconvenience.
Basically you have to make people do inconvenience things. You can’t ask.
For example single-use shopping bags. Everyone understands why they are a problem. Every store sells a reusable alternative. Recyclable paper bags have always been an option. But unless it’s regulated, people continue using disposable single use plastic shopping bags.
- The problem isn’t just what can be recycled it’s what WILL be recycled.
Imagine going through construction debris trying to separate plaster, wood-lathing wire-lathing, screws, and insulation into separate piles for disposal.
Picture the average grandma disassembling a sump pump to make sure plastic rubber Teflon and metal materials all end up in separate recyclable piles.
No where does it say that consumers should be required to do these things. Just that if the only end of life possibility for a product is the land fill, then we should restrict it’s manufacturing. Obviously there would need to be exceptions for things like medical needs or accessibility accomodations.
So we don’t want to achieve the recycling, repair, and re-use, we just want to know it’s theoretically possible?
No where did I say that, you obtuse troll.
And this is why bags are no longer free where i live and cost up to 40c a piece. People quickly stopped using them haha
The inconvenience of the price became larger than always having a reusable bag in the car or bike heheWe banned them here too. I always forget my reusable bags and toss a loose assortment of goods in my trunk to tumble around.
Oh, i get one of the cardboard boxes the shops let you take then haha. That and i have 3, reusable bags in the car and a collapsable plastic box to put my shoppings into xD
I agree but money and profit trump all of this so it is more like a fantasy.
Surely there is a word starting with re- for compost…
Recomposted 👍
I bought an air purifier last winter. Now I can’t find a replacement filter anywhere. Fuck that forced obsolescence crap.
But my disposable economy?!?!?
Jokes on you. Everything can be reduced. *Except profits
Total lifetime cost and emissions are more important. Recycling something doesn’t mean its total pollution is free.
Give me the enthropy reversal machine LadyButterfly! Divulge your secrets!
Well I mean if it can be reduced then it should be removed, lol, that one doesn’t belong in the list.
