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re: It is ridiculous how much plastic garbage is generated by our food
Posted on 1/31/19 at 11:43 am to kywildcatfanone
Posted on 1/31/19 at 11:43 am to kywildcatfanone
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Learn to recycle
I bet less than 10% of restaurants are recycling their bags of plastic.
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Posted on 1/31/19 at 11:46 am to J Murdah
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I know some states are banning plastic straws, when I went to NYC in December many restaurants have paper straws and utensils.
Plastics straws are the least they can do. The sad part is there is probably more waste per meal in NYC than anywhere else in the country. If I order sushi takeout, I will have two bags full of waste. If you order a coffee from a sidewalk cart, you get coffee in a wax cup, a half inch stack of napkins, and a paper bag. The grocery store baggers instinctively triple bag a loaf of bread because they don’t want to get yelled at the old ladies that complain about everything. It’s just the way they do business here and the waste is deeply ingrained.
Posted on 1/31/19 at 11:54 am to Slagathor
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We're talking about single-use plastics, you doughnut.
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Plastics are evil. I agree.
I was responding to the idiotic statement that plastic is "evil".
Posted on 1/31/19 at 11:57 am to i am dan
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Just checked our service. No pizza boxes with grease or food residue.
Pizza places need to use better protective sheeting in their boxes to keep grease off the cardboard.
Plastic would work great there.
Posted on 1/31/19 at 12:04 pm to weagle99
Humans generate approximately 4.4 lbs of waste per person per day. Extrapolate that out to over 7 billion people that is about 30 billion lbs of trash a day. It's hard for me to wrap my head around where it all goes. We're spoiled where you put your garbage out and it disappears. We dont have to deal with it.
Posted on 1/31/19 at 12:07 pm to lilmoonlsu
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Humans generate approximately 4.4 lbs of waste per person per day
more than that after a trip to popeye's
Posted on 1/31/19 at 12:37 pm to weagle99
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I have started avoiding certain restaurants because of their plastic packaging.
Me too. There's a little hole in the wall lunch spot I used to like, until they started serving ALL of their food (dine in and take out) in styrofoam containers. Their trash can was overflowing with styrofoam. I won't contribute to that.
Posted on 1/31/19 at 12:46 pm to weagle99
Years ago I ate a McDonald’s big breakfast w/hotcakes. While eating I realized how much plastic there was to throw always. The container it comes in, butter packets, syrup packets, jelly packets, utensils, coffee stirrers and the wrappers they come in.
I don’t eat that anymore. Now a freshly made Egg McMuffin is a favorite.
I don’t eat that anymore. Now a freshly made Egg McMuffin is a favorite.
Posted on 1/31/19 at 1:04 pm to weagle99
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I have started avoiding certain restaurants because of their plastic packaging.
Good start, but plastic waste is everywhere and now you have to avoid:
gas stations
starbucks
hotels
airports
sporting events
amusement parks
vacation destinations
malls
stores
hospitals
bars
casinos
schools
Posted on 1/31/19 at 1:11 pm to weagle99
"The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we’re gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, ’cause that’s what it does. It’s a self-correcting system.
The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed. And if it’s true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: the earth plus plastic.
The earth doesn’t share our prejudice toward plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children.
Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn’t know how to make it. Needed us.
Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, “Why are we here?”
Plastic… a-hole."
George Carlin
The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed. And if it’s true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: the earth plus plastic.
The earth doesn’t share our prejudice toward plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children.
Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn’t know how to make it. Needed us.
Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, “Why are we here?”
Plastic… a-hole."
George Carlin
This post was edited on 1/31/19 at 1:14 pm
Posted on 1/31/19 at 1:43 pm to Volt
There was an article posted recently that estimated 90% of plastics in the ocean come from the Yellow River in China and the Ganges in India.
And then also the 60 Minutes piece talking about how majority of plastics (and glass) are of little value to recyclers. Most ends up overseas or in landfills.
Conserving and using non single use items is the best route to take IMO
And then also the 60 Minutes piece talking about how majority of plastics (and glass) are of little value to recyclers. Most ends up overseas or in landfills.
Conserving and using non single use items is the best route to take IMO
Posted on 1/31/19 at 1:47 pm to weagle99
Used to avoid buying bottled water because of this, but then I figured, well if I don’t buy this case, then someone else will and they may not recycle like I will
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