Sustainability talk being about ketchup caps while rich people fly to climate conferences in their yachts. Weird world.
Heinz’s sustainable ketchup cap
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#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I go through a 64 gallon trash bin a week. That seems absurdly large to me. 64 gallons is 250 litres. We're four and we use about one 30 litres (8 gallons) bag for "rest" trash per week (everything not recyclable, including diapers which take a lot of space, so hopefully soon we can at least halve that trash volume) one 30 litres bag for recyclable plastic/metal every two weeks and maybe one 30 litres bag for compo…
Also family of four: we fill a 120l garbage bin per week, to the brim, and a 120l compost bin every two weeks (this one maybe is not full, but it stinks by that time) and a ton of "recyclables" (cardboard, paper, metals, plastics).
> Also family of four: we fill a 120l garbage bin per week
What goes into this since you already recycle bio, cardboard, plastics and metal? My "generic trash" is a 25 liter bag that I empty about once a month or so. Since most things go to the specific recycling containers, the generic waste is dominantly just napkins and tissues that shouldn't go to bio.
I don't have kids so no diapers or anything like that, but 120l weekly sounds still a lot after recycling.
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#133Never knew i needed a CT scanner.
Wonder how much this costs? Medically speaking they're pretty damn cheap (compared to other modalities anyway)
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
Where I grew up the reason stated when they replaced glass with plastic was that the weight of the glass alone caused more pollution from transport than the plastic bottles that replaced them
It's not just about emissions, though. Single-use plastics literally just accumulate in landfills until the end of time, while glass is highly recyclable (and one of the few economically viable ones).
Arguably putting plastic back in landfills is just returning oil back to earth, but it’s not a pretty site.
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#135Very nice. I live alone and often I'm baffled by the sheer amount of garbage that my urban lifestyle generates. I was not alive in the 80's but I was told that people used to use more environment-friendly packaging like glass bottles. Sometimes I wonder why this massive change to everything-should-be-packed-in-plastic happened.
In the 80s in the UK we had milk delivered every morning in glass bottles by a huge fleet of electric vehicles. The empty bottles were left out, collected by the milkman, sterilised and reused. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_float
I can remember milk delivery in the 1970s in where I grew up in Scotland moving from glass bottles to rather ghastly plastic sachets.
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#136Sustainability talk being about ketchup caps while rich people fly to climate conferences in their yachts. Weird world.
Don't forget to stop eating meat, while we heavily subsidize the resources industry and frack the land.
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#137Sustainability talk being about ketchup caps while rich people fly to climate conferences in their yachts. Weird world.
Certain senators flying in private planes too!
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#138Very nice. I live alone and often I'm baffled by the sheer amount of garbage that my urban lifestyle generates. I was not alive in the 80's but I was told that people used to use more environment-friendly packaging like glass bottles. Sometimes I wonder why this massive change to everything-should-be-packed-in-plastic happened.
I go through a 64 gallon trash bin a week. By my back of the envelope calculation thats about 1.3 chevy tahoes worth of trash a year, and that's just me one American out of 400 million so all told we are dealing with maybe half a billion chevy tahoes of trash a year we need to do something with or put someplace if most Americans consume like I do.
That would be 1.2 cubic miles a year uncompressed. Quite a lot but also not that much.
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#139Very nice. I live alone and often I'm baffled by the sheer amount of garbage that my urban lifestyle generates. I was not alive in the 80's but I was told that people used to use more environment-friendly packaging like glass bottles. Sometimes I wonder why this massive change to everything-should-be-packed-in-plastic happened.
I remember growing up in India and plastic was introduced to "save the trees". It took us decades for us to fully grasp the environmental devastation it caused.
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#140Sustainability talk being about ketchup caps while rich people fly to climate conferences in their yachts. Weird world.
> fly to climate conferences in their yachts. Weird world.
Yachts that fly. Weird world, indeed :)