• European parliament approves sweeping ban on single-use plastics
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/24/european-parliament-approves-ban-on-single-use-plastics-uk-eu-brexit
wouldn't switching to paper causes us to die even faster since we would be cutting down more trees
Use your hands alternatively everyone should be carrying their own containers, its really not that awful if you already have a backpack.
It would be shortsighted to replace one kind of disposable good with another, even if that other is recyclable. The western world really needs to get over the whole disposable goods and excessive consumption culture. Reduce, reuse, recycle. So many people are fixated on the third one to such an extent that they completely forget that the first two exist and are actually more important.
Luckily it's good for business to replant the trees if you want to keep logging
see all this could've been at least moderately handled if all these one and done locations gave you a dedicated location to dump say cups/cutlery/paper/etc but nahh that'd cut into our million dollar bonuses
waste management and related infrastructure IS important. I don't know about the million dollar bonuses and how they might stand in the way, but radical big changes are rather welcomed at this point. A sweeping ban on wasteful use of plastics is not a bad thing at all, even if at the cost of customer comfort/ease (like, a harder time shopping for shit you "need") which I find pretty damn interesting, in the sense that people might find themselves forced to accustom to new consumer habits because any environmentally harmful shit is no longer available on the shelves at such vast quantity. Apply the same sweeping ban strategy - what some say is a very big issue - to the sales meat products, and simply make them not available anymore in such large amounts. Literally reduce the import and production numbers down by 75% and I think it would make things very interesting for an average consumer (like myself) to step into a food store. At the same time, this would drive any big fast-food chains down and I'm not sure how they would respond to it. After all, meat is a luxury which is reasonable to say because other animals are generally a scarcer source of food that also requires more energy to get a hold of (like hunting prey does) than munching on plant-like material. And to think of how much energy we use to get a hold of the meat.
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