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The only smart thing he ever did was to be born into a wealthy family.

People are just going to buy what they can and it's up to manufactures to provide affordable packaging that is environmentally friendly.

It's the Producers, not the Consumers, who must fix this.

I’m helping with the collective fight that’s needed in order to change this. If everyone who posted a bunch of hot air about how terrible “we” are would channel that same energy into contributing to one of the many group efforts going on at the moment, we’d be further along. And those who post this kind of thing and then vote right wing belong at the top of this stupidity hall of fame.

Reading about the amount of microplastics we each have inside of us and how we simply do not know the long term damage this could do makes me try to avoid plastic in general, not just single use.

Recently noticed that in Coca-Cola commercials the actors are always shown with the little glass bottles of Coke, but in the stores all you ever see are plastic bottles and aluminum cans. Glass and aluminum are easily recycled yet Coke continues to bottle in plastic.

Our family has bought a set of washable metal straws for this reason.

The way this world is right now I highly doubt that there will even be future generations. I am 48yrs old and when I was 15 I decided I didn't want kids for the reasons that are happening at this very moment. I swore I would never put a child through not being able to work normal hours for a normal pay and not even be able to rent a tiny apartment that is going for 2,000.00 a month. Environment is completely destroyed, wouldn't trust my kid would be safe walking around the town, woods, beach without being raped, kidnapped, robbed, followed, possibly killed. It's a scary world and we are not even slowly destroying it. We are fast tracking the destruction of it.

The real stupidity is the killing of a million tons of trees a year just to make us feel good about not using plastic.

Massively agree with this!!!

Future generations will hate us no matter what, that is the way it has always been and the way it will always be. We just need to find a useful way to use all this leftover plastic.

"Probably get downvoted to hell for it, but..." Why do people start uncontroversial posts like that, especially when they're about to give the kind of answer that is perfectly on-topic? They know they're not going to be downvoted for it, and my suspicion is that they do it as a psychological trick to get more upvotes from people rushing to reassure them that they won't be downvoted by upvoting the comments. Me? I'd downvote them for trying to con upvotes out of people.

Manufacturers definitely need to do better, but there are things the consumer can do as well. Stop buying bottled water if you have safe tap water, I use bar shampoo/conditioner, use laundry detergent sheets, toothpaste tablets, reusable liquid soap dispensers (our soap is a tablet that dissolves in water and makes soap), use bar soap rather than body wash, use your own shopping bags... Some of these do cost more, but if you can afford it, why not?

I agree. The packaging has to be changed. We can only buy what is on the shelves. Sure we can recycle or use cloth grocery bags. But recycling plastic is an oxymoron, and a pathetic joke.

Starting with the whole bottled water fad that just blew up to an insane level...

The solution is to make a sustainable and environmentally friendly material that can do the job of plastic and can be as cheap.

Overhead workmates saying they were happy that we don't ban single use beverages and that other teams who ask people to bring reusable cups for water etc. are ridiculous. No, our team is ridiculous 😭

Like the milk bottling companies that decided to add a plastic pour point from the paper carton that worked great for many years. I have to ask, are you people fu cking stupid?

This will be known as the disposable era.

But why would anyone vote that down? I haven't even heard climate change deniers deny the problem with plastic.

Why would you be downvoted? This is definitely a crisis and something we should be very worried about.

Who would downvote this?

It's one of the great album titles in music, "give me convenience or give me death."

A really annoying problem I've encountered is that I'd like to even pay a little extra for products that don't come in plastic containers but going even to the biggest supermarkets it's all plastic containers. Even soaps that are wrapped in paper have a plastic wrap on the inside. There are shampoo bottles that look rustic, with the appearance of a metal bottle, but alas, is plastic too. I have found some online stores that sell cleaning products in old timey metal and glass bottles (with metal caps too) with prices that aren't robbing me. But it's only affordable in bulk so it is hardly very convenient for a small household. Just go to any supermarket and pay attention to if you can find any household product that isn't plastic, you'll be amazed how difficult it is.

There are two sides of a coin to this: A plastic bottle weights less than a glass one. Therefore you can put more bottled beverages into the truck, reducing the price you have to pay for transit of a certain amount of the bottles. Also you need less trucks, so you pollute the air less.

Exactly. A simple zoom call would suffice.

If a church takes its parishioners money and spends it on fancy buildings and fountains and the preacher is wearing fancy suits instead of putting those donations back into the community I like to imagine sky daddy's thumb coming out the clouds and smooshing that building. In America some of the churches that televise their worship pay professional singers to sing in their choirs. My cousin is an opera singer in LA, that was a good regular income for him. Meanwhile preachers in Africa sell their own holy 'elixirs' they promise cure all ailments out of their churches after their service...

I struggle to comprehend that people take Qanon seriously.

Politicians just need to be likeable. Elections are literally popularity contest, and that's only on the surface. In the US, it's established that winning the popular vote doesn't determine the presidency. Still go out and vote, but know one of the things you need to vote towards is de-corrupting the US government.

You have Moron-orrhea. Incurable and there's no treatment for that. Best to live your days far away from society so you don't infect others.

In the 60s when I was a kid it was more common to see people who had been crippled by polio. Think Southpark "Jimmy" on those metal crutches and the Forest Gump leg braces.

What I find absolutely amazing is that now I can go into a place that doesn't require a mask and there will be people wearing a mask like this. It was bad enough that people worn them wrong when required, but wearing them wrong when they aren't required requires "flat Earth" level at stupidity!

The whole farce would have been laughable had it not been so severe for the downtown Ottawa residents. Never underestimate the potential damage of stupid.

Can't believe how many people idolize that pig -_-

This is literally describing capitalism. Is Scientology just capitalism with aliens?

The targeted advertisement to young and at risk people is worse IMO.

I would agree with the first statement, except that the victims of these "challenges" are mostly naive kids and kids are stupid. We all were. Maybe some were smart enough to know that detergent could hurt or kill you, but not smart enough to understand that cinnamon, despite being 'food," could actually suffocate you if inhaled. The idiots that promoted those challenges should have been prosecuted.