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Is there a good substitute for cling wrap? I mostly store food in reusable containers. And I try to use foil as much as possible. But some things are irregularly shaped and need a tight seal, and I’ve struggled to find a good alternative.
vacuum containers
Certainly a guesstimate in other countries I can think of who are likely responsible for high plastics pollution, would be far lower than 8 or 9 out of every 10 people, as it's a contributor as to why the issue exists in those places, surely?
Yes yes instead of single use bags at the store I now get more durable plastic bags that I throw away after using once. Well done.
The only exception is people that know the consequences on their every-day life.
What makes you say that? I support a ban and I totally understand that it will involve some pain until we adjust. Why would you believe others don't understand this?
This gives a signal to the market that if a lot of people does it, they should move in that direction to meet the demand.
However, this is not what it's happening, and that's because people appreciate that something is cheaper thanks to single-use plastic of because they are not so interested in single-use plastic that they are willing to do an effort to go around it.
Basically, what people reveal when in the everyday use is that they are fine with single-use plastic, and if they say otherwise is to signal some kind of virtue because they decide not to put effort into it.
I’m someone that wouldn’t mind seeing single use plastics go the way of the dodo bird but 1) you should never trust issue polling even within a single country and 2) given that, I would trust it even less when the polling is “global”.
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Actually this is the third step. From the source:
https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/...
The only exception is people that know the consequences on their every-day life.
But it would need to be done with a hard cutoff date but far enough for those things to be figured out.
There are still some areas that we seem to not quite have an alternative. Or the environmental impact of the alternative is not quite as rosy as it appears.
Crap. Most of the substitutes have a bigger ecological footprint, even if you don't care at all about cost and comfort. Those reusable shopping bags need to be actually reused , several dozen if not hundreds of times, to be ecological. How many times have you used your last one?
Is there a good substitute for cling wrap? I mostly store food in reusable containers. And I try to use foil as much as possible. But some things are irregularly shaped and need a tight seal, and I’ve struggled to find a good alternative.
I'm struggling to understand here, why in the world would you do that? Foil consumes thousands of times more resources than plastic wrap.