Roger Dodger, the truth about plastic lies

[Kahaih]

I think next week I will put out a huge recycling barrel full of all my old sex toys.

I don't care what the neighbors will think. I'm recycling for the betterment of our planet.

Weren't you already complaining about how small the straws in your last order were? Put those masterbation sleeves in the trash.

 

[me203]

I think next week I will put out a huge recycling barrel full of all my old sex toys.

I don't care what the neighbors will think. I'm recycling for the betterment of our planet.

Actually, the environmental thing to do is to reuse before recycle. So perhaps you might donate that barrel of sex toys to Goodwill.

 

[me203]

There is plenty of cellulose in this world, and we were using celluloid before petrochemical plastics came along. Material science is more than capable of creating biodegradable or reusable packaging and dunnage.

One thing I think of every year is the wasteful packaging they use for berries these days. I cringe a bit sometimes when I buy a package of blueberries, because of that @#$#@# plastic clamshell box. There is not even the pretense of recycling with those in my area--they aren't accepted.

Maybe I should take a high road, and kick the summer blueberry addiction...

I can't remember the timeline very well, but from what I remember, those same berries came in cardboard boxes when I was young. They could use that technology then, and so why not now? Shipping would be a bit of a problem--but they could devise some reusable crates that could hold filled cardboard boxes so they could be shipped conveniently. Then the crates could be sent back and reused.

At one time, I liked shopping at a local, independent produce market. The major motivation was how much better the fruit they sold was vs. regular grocery stores. (This place had long running relationships with farmers, so they could get top quality.) But I also liked the fact that berries were often sold in cardboard boxes, just like I remembered from when my mother got berries at a regular grocery store.

 

[Alistair]

^ transporting those reusable containers back from every grocery store and market would probably be environmentally worse than the plastic containers.