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Or at least car/patio washing if you’re almost really a minimalist.
If you’re really a minimalist, you don’t own a car
And if you're only kind of a minimalist, who does own a car, you don't wash it.
Plastics are poisoning us
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Over here, your water bill has 2 components, the price of the fresh water and the price of the waste water. Waste water is at least as expensive per m³ as fresh water, sometimes more than double. If you are using rain water, you save on the fresh water price, but you have to still pay for the waste water. And since waste water price is calculated from your fresh water consumption, you either have to have a second met…
How does the water company know you're using rain water?
They don't. It's just verboten to do it without reporting it, and if they catch you there will be Konsequenzen!
Re: Plastics are poisoning us
#223it's cheap and easy to build a DIY infrared heat lamp sauna for detox so you can sweat out the bisphenols and phthalates!
source for you being able to "sweat out" plastics?
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There's microplastics which are now absolutely everywhere. Apparently we consume a credit card's worth of plastic per month. Nobody should feel ok about consuming a drink that's got a ground up credit card in it, yet that's what we're doing. In Asia especially it's crazy how plastic is often used - you go to a 7/11 to buy a cold drink, they put it in TWO flimsy plastic bags which you throw in the first trash can you…
> There's microplastics which are now absolutely everywhere. Apparently we consume a credit card's worth of plastic per month. Nobody should feel ok about consuming a drink that's got a ground up credit card in it, yet that's what we're doing. And what's the effect? We've been doing this for decades?
Replace plastic with lead and reread. Lead was used for centuries before the risks were fully understood.
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#225I became a minimist to save the planet as much as i could. Its easier than any one could think you know. Here is what i have been doing for a decade and would receommend 1. Reusing plastic bags (i love cotton bags but not ideal). Fold and keep one or two in your pocket before you leave home 2. Support and use light software so you dont need to upgrade your gadgets (12y laptop i use) 3. Prepare and eat home cooked mea…
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Incredible, "do fascism" is your only solution?
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It does not seem that easy and does not seem that important to be honest. Donating 100 dollars monthly to sensible causes seems more beneficial than all combined and easier for lots of people. 3. 4. 5. 4. are barely positive if positive at all (considering environment, some are definitely healthy)
Preferring walking is a big one, definitely worth more than “donating“. For most, it would require living in a smaller space, in a more urban area and is probably the most people can do to reduce that impact on the environment. The energy spend that comes from living in detached single family home that multiplies all the distances mass has to travel back and forth from that home (and subsequent homes) dwarfs everythi…
Walking is healthy and often is a signal that you live in a walkable place. Living in walkable place (concept similar to lately popular 15-minute cities) is important from environment perspective.
But, for example, preferring walking to more energy efficient cycling means you need more calories => eat more => affect environment more.
Very often living healthy is at odds with being environment friendly. I do not say you should live unhealthy but lets not confuse those two things.
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Teflon Aka Polytetrafluoroethylene cookware represents a health hazard. The stuff contains a great deal of Florine and breaks down at 300C, but that’s not purely binary instead it becomes increasingly unstable as your approach the temperature. Further no manufacturing process is perfect, I wouldn’t therefore assume eating significant quantities would be safe. That said, it’s generally used as a coating rather than a…
300 C is typically the highest setting on a stovetop. I never go above medium when using Teflon cookware. I've not used a cooking thermometer yet, but https://homebli.com/stove-top-temperature-knobs-what-the-num... gives a good general guide line under a section labelled Stove Top Numbers to Degrees. Also, I only use 'plastic' utensils with the pan. The result, not a single scratch on the pan. The surface looks brand…
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My city banned single use plastics ages ago. Plastic bags banned over a decade ago now. Plastic cutlery and containers banned in 2020. People freak out at the start and complain but no one cares and life continues on. Personally I bring my own bags to the supermarket since the paper ones are a bit annoying, but its trivial to just stuff one in my pocket before I leave.
>People freak out at the start and complain but no one cares and life continues on. And what are we supposed to do against this, raise in arms? In my country we have two big parties but they are in cahoots (practically have the same progressive opinions on everything) so we can't even vote to have these authoritarian policies removed. There obviously are other parties but it would take something big, or reaching a ti…
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My city banned single use plastics ages ago. Plastic bags banned over a decade ago now. Plastic cutlery and containers banned in 2020. People freak out at the start and complain but no one cares and life continues on. Personally I bring my own bags to the supermarket since the paper ones are a bit annoying, but its trivial to just stuff one in my pocket before I leave.
> Plastic cutlery and containers banned What did they replace takeout containers with? Where I live, they replaced them with "paper" containers that are lined with teflon...
Here they replaced them with "reusable" plastic containers like these https://a.co/d/ekoVN0G ... and wooden cutlery
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> suffer cirrhosis …and neuropsychiatric symptoms. Wilson’s disease is surprisingly common at 1 in 30,000.
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