counterpoint boba, but people complaining about paper straws is one of the silliest things to result out of climate "action"
obviously if you are injured or medically need to use a straw ie you have parkinson's etc. you need a straw, but paper straws are not that bad and carrying around a metal straw is also not that bad if you dislike the paper straws / use straws often enough to justify a metal one
I guess I just reject the framing that it's a tangible sacrifice to stop using single use plastic stuff, which should have been common practice for years before it happened
of all the immense amounts of plastic waste generated by the average westerners consumption, straws make up such an infinitesimally small amount as to basically not even register, and if you didnt know how poisoned western discourse is (:libs-owned: ) youd wonder why its even a topic of discussion at all
like theres a second france (but somehow even worse) worth of plastic waste floating in the pacific (and a similar one in the atlantic), what tiny percentage of that is made up of straws? and yet we never hear anything about how almost half of the immense amount of waste in these enormous marine garbage patches is made up of discarded fishing nets alone. seems like if people really wanted to reduce their contribution to plastics in the ocean theyd maybe start by not eating fish instead
It's pretty unfathomable how much refuse is created by food packaging alone. Of course without packaging and barcodes, porky might lose a little more to shoplifting but seriously how was this allowed to happen?
I wish we could just walk to the thing and pull a lever and get rice in the box :doomer:
My partner once brought home a potato, individually wrapped in saran wrap, from the super market. I wanted to cry at the absurdity of it all.
It's a potato. It's already covered in dirt and has probably been slathered in literal shit not too long ago. What possible utility is there in wrapping it up, unwashed, in plastic? Is it going to get somehow more fucking dirty than it already is?
Calmly explaining that potatoes come from the earth and you need to protect them from all the weird chemicals and ambient radiation common to the big cities. Then cocooning my potato in a thick layer of microplastics and leaving it in a hot car for a few hours.
some of the shrink wrapped potatoes are that way I think to make them microwave better but those aren't just like obviously shrink wrapped by a person it's more sealed and also idk I'm not a potato expert
every night I shrink wrap 5-6 containers of ingredients and 12-16 pizzas
every night forever and the plastic never decays
i go through like literally a hundred fucking gloves a day and I just make a da pizza