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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Governments impose these niggling, annoying measures on things like shopping bags, while they don’t do anything about the ridiculous amount of packaging you see in the goods the we actually buy in the stores. Bags of snacks from Costco where each item inside is individually packaged. Plastic clamshell cases around everything from pens to produce.
But reducing at the manufacturing level would be complicated and hard. So just bring down blanket bans on grocery bags and straws to make it look like you’re doing something.
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This is spot on.
There is so much packaging that is actually not recyclable that we all use, and can be easily replaced with something that can.
For example, multilayered plastic bags are not recyclable. Some things, like food, may require it; but there are many that dont.
You know those new packages that came out within the last 10 years that stand up on the shelves?
These cannot currently go in the Blue Bin.
How stupid is that?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/standup-pouches-1.4753156#:~:text=And%20the%20packaging%20is%20app ealing,different%20materials%2C%20it's%20not%20rec yclable.