Straws are Disappearing - What Else Should We Ditch?

[Looch City]

Receipts

[Ashasx]

Originally Posted by Zevo

Eliminating paper garbage isn't the big problem, it's plastic garbage that takes thousands of years to break down and is making it's way into the oceans.

Plastic grocery and shopping bags is the next thing to go.

This isn't that straight forward



https://terngoods.com/blogs/learn/re...he-environment

All re-usable bags should be polypropylene, which is created with a byproduct of oil refining.

[Zevo]

Originally Posted by Nyah

Oh, and plastic grocery bags seems like a no-brainer to do away with. The reusable ones are $1 and last forever.

Yup, they've already made them illegal for stores to use in Victoria and most of the Island is trying to transition away from them.

[lazypucker]

Take out boxes. Restaurants should charge extra for the boxes for take outs. If you bring your own containers, then you don't have to pay extra.

And how about paper towels for hand drying in the washrooms? I actually don't know how much money (and the environment) we save by using an electronic hand dryer instead...

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by lazypucker

Take out boxes. Restaurants should charge extra for the boxes for take outs. If you bring your own containers, then you don't have to pay extra.

And how about paper towels for hand drying in the washrooms? I actually don't know how much money (and the environment) we save by using an electronic hand dryer instead...

Take out boxes would be a tricky one. You can't just have Joe rando showing up with tuperware that was sliding around his trunk then go into a kitchen. They have no way of ensuring they are clean and safe and wouldn't contaminate the food.

[Johnny Makarov]

Churches

[calf]

Was at a bar over the weekend and they served their drinks with a long piece of penne pasta. Seemed like a novel/compostable way to give someone a straw if they wanted one.

[blankall]

Originally Posted by Nyah

Oh, and plastic grocery bags seems like a no-brainer to do away with. The reusable ones are $1 and last forever.

I re-use mine as garbage bags. Seems a lot less wasteful than actually using garbage bags. The plastic bags from grocery stores are made of a much lighter plastic material.

Theoretically the best solution would be to find a way to eliminate garbage bags. Currently, you aren't supposed to put loose garbage into bins, as it sprays everywhere when the garbage men empty it.

[Kybosh]

-Plastic bags
-Tipping
-Golf courses

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by calf

Was at a bar over the weekend and they served their drinks with a long piece of penne pasta. Seemed like a novel/compostable way to give someone a straw if they wanted one.

I got screwed on that in Vancouver. They used linguine for coffee stir sticks. You know what isn't cool? Not telling people that, when 1 in 125 are celiac. Very clever guys, you replaced plastic with making people sick.

[Wormius]

1) Bottled water.
2) plastic utensils
3) Pencils
4) Individual-sized things like those mini yogurt containers.
5) Swag.

[Locke]

Dogs and Bears.

[81MC]

Individual packaging for every single thing people buy. The amount of packaging for products is ridiculous. Things that do need a plastic container should be bulk fillable (laundry detergents, dish soap etc). I mentioned the new marijuana system before, but dear god what are we doing putting heavily consumed products in small plastic containers. It’s horrific to think we are banning straws while buying grams of weed with their own plastic containers.
Also, recycling is energy intensive. Don’t feel good about yourself because you used recycled packaging or compost all your food waste. Stop buying #### you don’t need.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Wormius

5) Swag.

pump the breaks big boy

[Nyah]

Originally Posted by blankall

I re-use mine as garbage bags. Seems a lot less wasteful than actually using garbage bags. The plastic bags from grocery stores are made of a much lighter plastic material.

Theoretically the best solution would be to find a way to eliminate garbage bags. Currently, you aren't supposed to put loose garbage into bins, as it sprays everywhere when the garbage men empty it.

With the blue bins and compost, our house has very limited garbage. We put out maybe one bag a week, and even that we're trying to minimize. Whereas if I got plastic grocery bags every time I went shopping, I'd have way too many of them to use for garbage.

I think getting rid of plastic garbage bags is a great first step. If people don't want to buy garbage bags at the store, then they should be trying to cut down on the amount of garbage they produce.

[Looch City]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

pump the breaks big boy

How many 4gb USB sticks do you need? And those damn lanyards that go straight in the trash.

No to mention the various iterations of useless screwdriver-pen-combo.

[TheIronMaiden]

keurig coffee makers. The amount of plastic that those single pods use is sickening.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Iggy City

How many 4gb USB sticks do you need? And those damn lanyards that go straight in the trash.

No to mention the various iterations of useless screwdriver-pen-combo.

fair comment, I thought he had an issue with Australians travelling light.

[calf]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

I got screwed on that in Vancouver. They used linguine for coffee stir sticks. You know what isn't cool? Not telling people that, when 1 in 125 are celiac. Very clever guys, you replaced plastic with making people sick.

Oh that's rough. I believe this bar asked first if it's ok, but yeah, care should definitely be taken first!

[RyZ]

The term "woke".