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Not an option for many people in the US when the nearest grocery store is too far and you need to shop for a family.
Totally an option when you choose a place to live. “Hey I NEED that plane trip to visit my family 2000km from where I moved last year”
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Reducing your motion will reduce your need to consume. So true, I've been practicing slow shallow breaths to reduce carbon output. Staying totally still most of the day reduces some of the dizziness.
Laying down in a box (of course made of locally sourced wood) makes it very easy to stay still. Sometimes I still feel the urge to move so to prevent this a wooden cover is place and nailed to the top.
I spent some time in SE Asia. Plastic consumption is rampant there, with styrofoam trays, plastic wrap, and plastic bags used for most items in stores. Street food vendors put their food in plastic. Straws and hard plastic cups are commonplace. Litter is common and waste management is nonexistent in many areas. One problem I’ve noticed there is the high volume of single-use plastic water bottles in use to deliver pot…
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There is another way... Take the cart to your car If you’re really concerned about your environmental impact, you’re probably not driving a car (which itself is made of hundreds of pounds of plastic). Much better to take transit, bike, or walk. My bike has a folding pannier basket that perfectly fits a reusable shopping bag.
Not an option for many people in the US when the nearest grocery store is too far and you need to shop for a family.
Cost of recycled and new plastic can easily be inverted by just taxing new plastic until it’s twice as expensive as recycled. Recycled can be subsidized with new plastic taxes. Problem solved!
Markets are efficient and fossil fuel companies are ruthless in making money. So obviously they will price their new plastics always cheaper than recycled. Cost of recycled and new plastic can easily be inverted by just taxing new plastic until it’s twice as expensive as recycled. Recycled can be subsidized with new plastic taxes. Problem solved!
The only way to really make a dent here is to reduce consumption.
We do agree though that the externalities should be priced in and that is a good use of government.
[1] https://www.oecd.org/environment/plastic-pollution-is-growin...
I spent some time in SE Asia. Plastic consumption is rampant there, with styrofoam trays, plastic wrap, and plastic bags used for most items in stores. Street food vendors put their food in plastic. Straws and hard plastic cups are commonplace. Litter is common and waste management is nonexistent in many areas. One problem I’ve noticed there is the high volume of single-use plastic water bottles in use to deliver pot…
Also comes down to why the water is non-drinkable. Could it be filtered on-premises?
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Take the cart to your car I think it would be better if you rode a bicycle or took a public transit, preferably train. unload the items into one or more plastic bins whoa there.. Not sure about those plastic bins. There is another way, unload them into handcrafted wood (sustainably sourced, of course), bins.
This is an unnecessary degree of sneering and disdain directed at someone sharing an an anecdote.
Most plastic is not consumer but business use. As much as you think your veggies wrapped in plastic is bad, everything in the supply chain leading to your veggies was wrapped in plastic: the pallet they came on, every part that went into making the truck that shipped it (multiple times, as the truck in various states of manufacture made its way around several different geographically dispersed factories), the soil an…
I have significantly reduced the use of plastic in the kitchen over the past few years. * Only metal or glass containers (sometimes with plastic lids) * But fresh vegetables/fruits (95% of these are not covered in plastic) and grains/spices from bulk barn (take your own glass containers and fill them up). * Meat and dairy comes in plastic wrap or bottles. But I am hoping to find a butcher who will let me take away th…
> But fresh vegetables/fruits (95% of these are not covered in plastic) That's nice but most of the plastic waste probably happens before you even buy it. If you really wanna reduce your waste in this area you should try to stick to what's in season[0] and grows locally. Also grow your own greens. They're easy to grow and the amount of waste produced and energy consumed just to get these leaves to stay green by the t…
Unfortunately, can't grow anything where we live, besides herbs, which we do.