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The interior of food packaging is often soiled by the food it previously contained. I don’t want to transfer that soil to my pocket or my backpack.
Ehh. Unless you're eating a melted candy bar, you probably accumulate more dirt and sweat going through your day than whatever few crumbs leak into your pockets.
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Ehh. Unless you're eating a melted candy bar, you probably accumulate more dirt and sweat going through your day than whatever few crumbs leak into your pockets.
Dirt is way easier to clean than mayonnaise, chocolate, bananas, or anything with a red sauce.
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Dirt is way easier to clean than mayonnaise, chocolate, bananas, or anything with a red sauce.
You eat some interesting things on the go. Even then, chocolate is the only thing I worry about on that list. Thoroughly eat the sauces and I'm not worried about those packets or a banana peel in my pocket. I'm not manually washing my clothes anyway.
Bananas are a fantastic on the go snack because they are self-portioned and give you plenty of sugar that your body can readily metabolize for continuing to walk around the city.
And of course, chocolate is delicious.
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You eat some interesting things on the go. Even then, chocolate is the only thing I worry about on that list. Thoroughly eat the sauces and I'm not worried about those packets or a banana peel in my pocket. I'm not manually washing my clothes anyway.
Mayonnaise isn’t exactly an exotic ingredient. In fact, Kewpie mayonnaise is something of a Japanese cultural icon. You would expect to find it on or inside of sandwiches and other foods typically taken to go. Bananas are a fantastic on the go snack because they are self-portioned and give you plenty of sugar that your body can readily metabolize for continuing to walk around the city. And of course, chocolate is del…
I especially appreciated the connection of the personal responsibility for one's waste to "adulting" in general. (you know it's problematic when a word had to be invented for not remaining a perpetual petulant child, which is assumed to be the default behaviour)
Another aspect that really follows immediately for accepting one's garbage responsibility: maybe don't buy all that shit from corporate vendors in the first place?
That's another Japanese tradition: pack your own lunch in a reusable container.
Of course, that's also not a part of the internet brain damaged era...
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As a tourist, I didn't realize what a commitment I was making when I bought a snack from a vending machine one morning. I had to carry around the empty wrapper until I got back to my hotel room that night.
The author of the linked article thinks you are simply wrong for considering this a burden.
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As a tourist, I didn't realize what a commitment I was making when I bought a snack from a vending machine one morning. I had to carry around the empty wrapper until I got back to my hotel room that night.
The author of the linked article thinks you are simply wrong for considering this a burden.
Most garbage was compactible and clean enough that I could stuff it into my garbage pocket (to the dismay of my girlfriend). Larger or dirtier items, I would put into a ziplock bag in my backpack that I carried with me everywhere. Public trash receptacles, while rarer than in North America, could be found often enough if you were observant of your surroundings.