07-01-2014, 04:39 AM
It's unfortunate that the world has become a "throwaway" society, and everything is now wrapped in "convenient individual servings" with plastic. I am still confused when the first oil embargo happened and president Jimmy Carter ( yes, I'm that old!) professed in a speech that "we need to reduce our dependency on oil, and oil based products". Somehow that was a green light for suppliers to take oil cans, which were made out of cardboard, and convert to plastic, and the individual wrapped product came along with it.
If the nations people as a whole took a specific day and "flash mobbed" the store that they bought the over plasticized product and dumped the waste at their loading docks it might get their attention as to how much waste there really is in this method of packaging. What's wrong with buying a big cut of meat, cutting it up and packaging yourself like a butcher would, recycling the butcher wrap in the compost pile, or re using your own plastic freezer bag?
Are you a human being, or a human doing?
If the nations people as a whole took a specific day and "flash mobbed" the store that they bought the over plasticized product and dumped the waste at their loading docks it might get their attention as to how much waste there really is in this method of packaging. What's wrong with buying a big cut of meat, cutting it up and packaging yourself like a butcher would, recycling the butcher wrap in the compost pile, or re using your own plastic freezer bag?
Are you a human being, or a human doing?