banning single-use plastics

[BotanyBoy]

Thats just it, don't ban it, tax the hell out of it.
But use the tax to help cure the problem, don't just buy votes with it

LMFAO....yea right, might as well just set it on fire.

 

[icanhelp1]

I use dehydrated water. Put a scoop into my glass and fill it up with tap water.

*********CHUCKLE*********

 

[icanhelp1]

It isn't cost effective to dump our trash into the sun. Why not reuse the trash in a thermal depolymerization process, and make fuel?

Exactly! Or create polymers that are biodegradable along with depolymerization, look what we do with old tires.

 

[icanhelp1]

I like that idea.
But here's the thing. How much polluting energy usage is required to recycle the plastics?

For example, I've read articles that talk about how it is more harmful to our climate to recycle aluminum (because of the energy requirements to re-refine it) than it is to extract raw material and make new aluminum products.

It's all about formulating the right carbon string ( molecules ) ( organic molecules ) all molecular bonds can be engineered or re-engineered.

 

[warrior queen]

It's not so hard to stop using most plastics.
I have successfully managed to transition almost every plastic item to either glass, ceramic or metal in my home.
All my groceries are bought from markets, butchers and bulk unpacked stores, and I take my own glass and metal containers to fill. I have hemp shopping bags.
I use shampoo and conditioner soap bars, toothpaste tablets, moisturiser bars, bulk dishwash which I fill into a glass bottle, etc.
I have 2 worm farms for vegetable waste, a bokashi bin for all other organic waste (bones, eggshells, etc), another in-ground worm farm for doggy doo. I don't use bags in my bin..... instead I have a metal bin with a metal tub liner that gets rinsed when I empty it into my household bin (which has been filled once in the past 6 months).
I have metal re-usable straws, a metal coffee cup for travel, bamboo cutlery, etc.
There's more, but you get the idea.

Really, the only plastics I haven't been able to get away from are blister packs for medication, and the plastic liner inside cans. Everything else has an alternative product already available.
And although I often get people saying 'what good is your little bit of change making'..... if enough people do as I do, then it will make a huge difference eventually.
Has to start somewhere!

 

[oralaccents]

It's not so hard to stop using most plastics.
I have successfully managed to transition almost every plastic item to either glass, ceramic or metal in my home.
All my groceries are bought from markets, butchers and bulk unpacked stores, and I take my own glass and metal containers to fill. I have hemp shopping bags.
I use shampoo and conditioner soap bars, toothpaste tablets, moisturiser bars, bulk dishwash which I fill into a glass bottle, etc.
I have 2 worm farms for vegetable waste, a bokashi bin for all other organic waste (bones, eggshells, etc), another in-ground worm farm for doggy doo. I don't use bags in my bin..... instead I have a metal bin with a metal tub liner that gets rinsed when I empty it into my household bin (which has been filled once in the past 6 months).
I have metal re-usable straws, a metal coffee cup for travel, bamboo cutlery, etc.
There's more, but you get the idea.

Really, the only plastics I haven't been able to get away from are blister packs for medication, and the plastic liner inside cans. Everything else has an alternative product already available.
And although I often get people saying 'what good is your little bit of change making'..... if enough people do as I do, then it will make a huge difference eventually.
Has to start somewhere!

Your Third World carbon credits are attractive.

 

[CandiCame]

It's not so hard to stop using most plastics.
I have successfully managed to transition almost every plastic item to either glass, ceramic or metal in my home.
All my groceries are bought from markets, butchers and bulk unpacked stores, and I take my own glass and metal containers to fill. I have hemp shopping bags.
I use shampoo and conditioner soap bars, toothpaste tablets, moisturiser bars, bulk dishwash which I fill into a glass bottle, etc.
I have 2 worm farms for vegetable waste, a bokashi bin for all other organic waste (bones, eggshells, etc), another in-ground worm farm for doggy doo. I don't use bags in my bin..... instead I have a metal bin with a metal tub liner that gets rinsed when I empty it into my household bin (which has been filled once in the past 6 months).
I have metal re-usable straws, a metal coffee cup for travel, bamboo cutlery, etc.
There's more, but you get the idea.

Really, the only plastics I haven't been able to get away from are blister packs for medication, and the plastic liner inside cans. Everything else has an alternative product already available.
And although I often get people saying 'what good is your little bit of change making'..... if enough people do as I do, then it will make a huge difference eventually.
Has to start somewhere!

Both my lovers are all about Lush and shampoo bars. I can't with that shit. I absolutely can not. It won't lather in my hair. They've both got curls and no natural oil so soap makes sense. I need to STRIP that shit or I'm a goddamn bog witch. There is NO no-poo method that is ever going to work for me.

I don't know how the fuck this happened but Bitesize like... her hair doesn't get dirty. Like it doesn't. Like, her scalp does, but her actual hair doesn't. It's magic or someshit. Like I have legit not taken it down before and just took like a toothbrush and went between the braids because she has goddamn magic hair.

I also wanted to just outhippie you because I do all of that AND I make my own soaps. Out of pig grease and fireplace soot. Weirdly a lot of shit that you do because you're a redneck is hipster now. Like making laundry shit out of borax and homemade soap is a thing that like, city hipsters are doing now but something this region got made fun of for doing before it was cool.

Except the worms. My compost is outside because I'm not dealing with bugs. I fucking hate bugs. I can't stand that shit.

Oh, and I use garbage bags. Because I'm not a fucking animal.

I've made a couple hemp bags and Jesus fucking Christ that destroyed my hands. How the fuck is there hemp lotion but if you try to knit with hemp it's worse than wool? Like these are the same product.

Oh, also, idk if you diy, but bamboo like, yarn and fabric and shit is actually plastic held together with bamboo fibers. Like it's mostly acrylic. They don't tell you that and they fucking got me until my boyfriend told me I wasn't as green as I thought I was. You got me, big bamboo, you got me.

He was gonna grow it, is why he knew that. He was gonna grow it and make yarn for me, but he looked it up and realized he couldn't because it requires an entire factory to do that because it's plastic.

Which is bullshit because I got like 7 skeins of it.