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Originally Posted by stampsx2
This is a much much bigger concern than the trendy plastic straw issue. Restaurants and grocery stores throw out food that’s still good because of liability.
It raises prices for consumers so that business’s could recover their costs. When you buy apples you’re paying for those apples and the apples that the business owner will be throwing out.
58 per cent of all food produced in Canada — 35.5 million tonnes — is lost or wasted. It takes energy to produce, transport and store this wasted food. Carbon and methane are produced during production and as waste when it goes to a landfill. Methane is 30 times more powerful as a greenhouse gas compared to carbon.
The plastic straw fad is an absolute joke compared to what’s going on in food waste. Worrying about plastic straws is the equivalent of picking up crumbs at a landfill. There’s a much bigger issue out there.
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I fail to see how these two things are in opposition to one another.