industrial production creates far more plastic than anything consumers produce through waste. I’m talking multiple times. Anything WE do to try to make a difference is ultimately futile. YES, things are always done one bit at a time, but it’s important to consider the scales involved. I do feel bad throwing things away, however. I try not to waste, myself. Re-use all the top loaders I can.
In my shipping, I use compostable bubble mailers, cardboard inserts, and only the top loader and sleeve are plastic. Costs a little more, but I’m trying to help. No solution is cheap, that’s what got us here in the first place…
The only right-minded, unbrain-washed, frank and intelligent comment.
That’s why I couldn’t be bothered with going green unless all the industrial factories and fuel-burning power plants shut down. Any green effort by consumers is futile and of a placebo “feel good” effect merely, eg; like use paper straws, shut down electricity for 1 hour, etc…
Fair point. I focused on consumer-grade plastics but the argument can be extrapolated even further if you want to compare to industry use to consumer use generally.
I want to also point out that my point wasn’t that individuals should use less plastic water bottles for instance. Many places I’ve been to in the US almost exclusively get their water this way (shocking tbh). For meaningful change, the goal isn’t to get everyone to stop using plastic bottles, it’s to create alternative options that are better. For example, I love the taste of Toronto tap water, water bottles are inferior and I never use them unless there is no other option
It’s wild when you go to someone’s house, and they offer you water, then come out of the kitchen with water in a plastic bottle. I can’t wrap my head around that one.
I wouldn’t drink water directly from the tap. The water may be purified (like in my country) but the insides of pipes and water tank are NEVER cleaned.
I always boil tap water before drinking and use bottled distilled water for cooking. Didn’t want the weird taste of tap water into my food.
Dutch tap water taste excellent and is better than the packaged water available here. I have tried tap water many places but I feel nothing comes close to the freshness and taste of the Dutch tap water. Probably I am a bit biased as well.
@pokebuffet I agree. In many Asian countries the best practice is to filter and boil the water and just drink bottled water when travelling or on the move. I don’t think a lot of folks can afford to drink bottled water on a daily basis for cooking and drinking.
Same story here. The groundwater I get on tap at my grandmother’s outcompetes any bottled water, the water where I live is passable. I don’t think there’s such a thing as bad tap water in Norway per se. And then you have places like Voss where they ship the tap water overseas and sell it as artisan water at $6 per liter.
I visited a water filtration plant once, it’s pretty amazing. After the first rounds of filtering you end up with this huge black wall of sludge, looks like something out of hell.
And to your point, it is also a matter of changing society’s mindset. We can’t do anything as individuals, BUT if society comes to wholly accept that plastics are a problem, we can begin to make changes, and as you say, that begins with having options, EVEN if it’s just on a consumer level.
When I lived in San Francisco, everything was compostable, recyclable, or re-usable. They were trying to eliminate all landfill waste. I don’t know if it worked, but it forced people to have to see how things MIGHT work - start to broaden society’s perspective. We are creatures of habit.
Most people in the US drink from the tap or they have an at home filter like their fridge/brita or another filter. Plastic bottles were meant to be bought on the go at an airport or when you’re traveling.
To drink Poland spring bottles in your own house is like using plastic utensils to eat lunch at home, or using a travel neck pillow while you’re on your couch. Aside from being wasteful I can’t make it make sense.
The only true waste in Pokemon is how much energy cards they give us. One in every pack and in ETBs they give you a sealed stack when you dont need that much.
