banning single-use plastics

[butters]

Add Canada to the growing number of countries that are banning plastic. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the country will ban single-use plastic items by 2021. So, that means no more plastic bags, straws, cutlery or stirring sticks. The United Kingdom plans to ban such plastics next year, and the European Parliament has passed its own single-use plastics ban.

good. we don't need them and plastic has got into everything, the water, the food-chain, people... i really don't like eating and drinking out of plastic and styrofoam; give me glass and china any day. plastic tastes like chemicals.

Americans May Be Ingesting Thousands of Microplastics Every Year ...
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/.../americans-may-be-ingesting-thousands-micropla...
5 days ago - People who drink exclusively from plastic water bottles ingest an additional 90,000 microplastics each year, researchers found.

Scientists discover plastic in faeces of every person who took part in ...
https://www.independent.co.uk/.../plastic-microplastic-study-pollution-food-drink-wat...
Oct 22, 2018 - "Now that we have first evidence for microplastics inside humans, we need further research to understand what this means for human health.".

 

[HisArpy]

good. we don't need them and plastic has got into everything, the water, the food-chain, people... i really don't like eating and drinking out of plastic and styrofoam; give me glass and china any day. plastic tastes like chemicals.

So your personal preferences are all that are necessary for everyone to be required to do likewise?

 

[chillywilly2]

good. we don't need them and plastic has got into everything, the water, the food-chain, people... i really don't like eating and drinking out of plastic and styrofoam; give me glass and china any day. plastic tastes like chemicals.

Thats good, we really should develop an alternative, so what do you propose we use.

 

[butters]

Thats good, we really should develop an alternative, so what do you propose we use.

why not use what we already have?

 

[chillywilly2]

why not use what we already have?

I used to buy my steaks wrapped in paper and carry the groceries home in paper bags but they closed the paper mill here, so, what do we already have

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Thats good, we really should develop an alternative, so what do you propose we use.

Non-plastics and multi-use plastics would be a good start, I reckon.

I mean, since "single-use" is the operating term here.

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[DMBFFF]

(for source)
http://www.digimperialbeach.com/events/100240/from-storm-drain-to-food-chain

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[HisArpy]

Non-plastics and multi-use plastics would be a good start, I reckon.

I mean, since "single-use" is the operating term here.

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It's almost like you think changing the label from "single use" to "multi use" means that people won't throw it in the trash anyway.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

It's almost like you think changing the label from "single use" to "multi use" means that people won't throw it in the trash anyway.

It's almost like well why do people try so hard to live if they're just going to die in the end anyway, so you might as well stop trying to live.

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[HisArpy]

It's almost like well why do people try so hard to live if they're just going to die in the end anyway, so you might as well stop trying to live.

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Obvious deflection.'

'Tell us why you believe that merely changing the label will prevent people from putting plastic bags into the garbage after 1 use.

Perhaps if someone printed "multi-use plastic bag" on the bag that'll work... oh wait...

 

[Matthew Craig]

Canada bans plastic condoms because = bad.
Abortions skyrocket but it's ok. Murder = good.

Libturd Logic™

 

[von_Bismarck]

Indeed. It's 2019. Biodegradable plastics for single use should be the norm.

 

[chillywilly2]

Non-plastics and multi-use plastics would be a good start, I reckon.

I mean, since "single-use" is the operating term here.
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Hey, I'm all for the ban, but what NON PLASTICS would you suggest gets used.

Without a solution its just more vote pandering by trudope.

Same as his carbon tax that comes back to everybody as a tax credit cheque instead of investing the money into reasearch

 

[Dribble]

One more thing that the right wing says there is nothing we can do, so let us do nothing...they really have become the do nothing party haven't they?

 

[chillywilly2]

One more thing that the right wing says there is nothing we can do, so let us do nothing...they really have become the do nothing party haven't they?

I didn't say do nothing, I said put your money where your mouth is and develop something

 

[Luk]

I used to buy cases of bottled water. Now, I have a Brita pitcher and Brita water bottles with built-in filters. https://www.brita.com/water-bottles/

We definitely need to do our best to eliminate single-use plastics.

 

[adrina]

We're drowning in plastic. They estimate we ingest some 60,000-70,000 pieces of plastic annually. More if you drink water from plastic bottles.

This isn't an if situation. It's a when. We cannot keep profligately using and dumping plastics.

 

[HisArpy]

We're drowning in plastic. They estimate we ingest some 60,000-70,000 pieces of plastic annually. More if you drink water from plastic bottles.

This isn't an if situation. It's a when. We cannot keep profligately using and dumping plastics.

You do realize that EVERY "Hefty trash bag" is single use, right?

As is every disposable diaper.

As is... well hopefully you get the point.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Obvious deflection.'

'Tell us why you believe that merely changing the label will prevent people from putting plastic bags into the garbage after 1 use.

Perhaps if someone printed "multi-use plastic bag" on the bag that'll work... oh wait...

How did you learn to do things? From birth to right now?

Did you learn? Or did you just download what you know about living from the Cloud and called it a day?

 

[JohnnySavage]

I used to buy cases of bottled water. Now, I have a Brita pitcher and Brita water bottles with built-in filters. https://www.brita.com/water-bottles/

We definitely need to do our best to eliminate single-use plastics.

I use dehydrated water. Put a scoop into my glass and fill it up with tap water.

 

[Matthew Craig]

I use dehydrated water. Put a scoop into my glass and fill it up with tap water.

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Nice try. Dehydrated water still comes in single use plastic packets.

 

[chillywilly2]

Well, I don't nor have I ever bought bottled water, and I drink my beer from bottles, not cans.
I make my coffee at home and take it with me instead of stopping at a coffee shop.

I brought a Tesco shopping bag back with me to use here instead of carrying advertising for our chain stores.

 

[HisArpy]

How did you learn to do things? From birth to right now?

Did you learn? Or did you just download what you know about living from the Cloud and called it a day?

TEACHING someone to respect the environment is a LOT DIFFERENT than the government mandating or banning useful items merely to appease a lobbying group.


Plastics are useful. Even plastic straws are useful.

Then there's the unaddressed issue of what do we do with the trash that's already IN the environment? That's the elephant in the room that NO ONE is talking about. Banning more use will not make any of that magically "go away".

So, instead of feel good non-solutions, why not figure out a way to clean up the mess FIRST.

 

[Luk]

TEACHING someone to respect the environment is a LOT DIFFERENT than the government mandating or banning useful items merely to appease a lobbying group.


Plastics are useful. Even plastic straws are useful.

Then there's the unaddressed issue of what do we do with the trash that's already IN the environment? That's the elephant in the room that NO ONE is talking about. Banning more use will not make any of that magically "go away".

So, instead of feel good non-solutions, why not figure out a way to clean up the mess FIRST.

STFU, you dumbass. We're talking about SINGLE USE, not ban of all plastics. And obviously, TEACHING isn't WORKING so government mandates to change how we treat the environment are NECESSARY.

 

[RocketLauncher]

Hey, I'm all for the ban, but what NON PLASTICS would you suggest gets used.

Without a solution its just more vote pandering by trudope.

Same as his carbon tax that comes back to everybody as a tax credit cheque instead of investing the money into reasearch

A and W has as already replaced single use plastics up here. They use a heavily wax coated paper to make the straws. A and W is the only fast food chain I infrequently visit. Nothing to develop, already done. Say what you want about Trudeau but Scheer is a moronic fucktard, look up his fiscal management ideas, also a white supremacist.
ETA The carbon tax is going to cost taxpayers a grand total of $620 over 8 or 9 years or some ridiculously low number. I'll look it up and send it to you via pm.