02-10-2019, 07:07 AM
"Would "bottled water" come in glass? Cans? Not at all?"
Anheiser Busch always donates disaster-relief water in aluminum cans.
"RWR, what's "AOC"?"
She's like if Bernie Sanders was a female, and also was unable to form a logical sentence.
"Banning plastic straws seemed, at first, to be silly."
The plastic "sippy cup" straw replacement I saw Starbucks using appeared to contain more plastic than the straw it replaced.
"How could anyone miss plastic utensils? They're an abomination."
What is KFC going to make it's sporks out of? The problem with banning things is that some other material has to replace it. China outlawed disposable wooden chopsticks because they were mowing down forests to make them. I never heard the end of that story but I understood that they were replacing them with plastic. Incidentally, KFC replaced it's polystyrene containers with reusable plastic ones (sort of like tupperware) and increased prices to match. Most of them still get thrown away without getting reused, and they contain more plastic than what they replaced.
ETA: I do believe that a plastics ban is coming, sooner or later. I just hope that when they write the law they include verbiage such that biodegradable or compostible and plant-based plastics continue to be legal.
Anheiser Busch always donates disaster-relief water in aluminum cans.
"RWR, what's "AOC"?"
She's like if Bernie Sanders was a female, and also was unable to form a logical sentence.
"Banning plastic straws seemed, at first, to be silly."
The plastic "sippy cup" straw replacement I saw Starbucks using appeared to contain more plastic than the straw it replaced.
"How could anyone miss plastic utensils? They're an abomination."
What is KFC going to make it's sporks out of? The problem with banning things is that some other material has to replace it. China outlawed disposable wooden chopsticks because they were mowing down forests to make them. I never heard the end of that story but I understood that they were replacing them with plastic. Incidentally, KFC replaced it's polystyrene containers with reusable plastic ones (sort of like tupperware) and increased prices to match. Most of them still get thrown away without getting reused, and they contain more plastic than what they replaced.
ETA: I do believe that a plastics ban is coming, sooner or later. I just hope that when they write the law they include verbiage such that biodegradable or compostible and plant-based plastics continue to be legal.