We shop at a co-op that lets us bring in containers to fill in the bulk foods section.
But, due to health regulations, they can't do it with everything. Some items must be packaged and it's mostly plastic containers that could be re-used 20 to 100 times but are thrown out after one use.
Even if we try to re-use rather than recycle or put them in the trash, no one has the space to keep all those containers or any use for them (except for a few).
I recently threw out more than 100 good, solid, usable containers that the thrift store wouldn't take and no one on Craig's list wanted.
I loved my MIL too, she was funny as fuck, we used to sit up til dawn drinking red wine and I could make her laugh so hard she fell over (well, gently folded til she was on the floor), often without spilling her drink
I really enjoy that the California Raisin news is 'comments disabled' but this is not. Implying a highly controversial nature of the dried fruit singers.
We have a new recycle system in our town. We used to pre-sort. Now they have a sorting machine and... it can't take bottlecaps, it can't take clamshell plastics.
The planet creates more plastic than we can re-use or re-cycle, but we should still make an effort to recycle.
New system, so I threw away a couple of clamshells (I hate single-use plastics but some products aren't available in bulk where we can bring in our own containers).
Then I realized if you cut it in half, it is no longer a clamshell. You only have to trash one side and you can recycle the other.
Not all trash sinks, some of it forms massive islands floating in the oceans. The size of some of these trash islands rival the size of land countries.
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https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/12/1081129/plastic-recycling-climate-change-microplastics/amp/
High quality paper can sometimes be recycled two or three times, newsprint maybe once or twice (usually once).
The problem with plastics is that it has to be marked so they can sort it, it's labor-intensive, and not all plastics can be recycled.
They had no idea paper goes through acid baths that breaks down the fibers each time. Most of it can only be recycled one to three times if that.
But, due to health regulations, they can't do it with everything. Some items must be packaged and it's mostly plastic containers that could be re-used 20 to 100 times but are thrown out after one use.
I recently threw out more than 100 good, solid, usable containers that the thrift store wouldn't take and no one on Craig's list wanted.
The planet creates more plastic than we can re-use or re-cycle, but we should still make an effort to recycle.
Then I realized if you cut it in half, it is no longer a clamshell. You only have to trash one side and you can recycle the other.
Now we need manufacturers to stamp the recycle symbol of both halves of the clamshell so both sides can be recycled.
Now they are also starving to death because they swallow plastic that fills up their stomachs so they can't digest real food.
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/dolphin-in-florida-found-dead-with-plastic-trash/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-great-pacific-garbage-patch-the-floating-islands-of-trash-three-times-the-size-of-france/ar-AA1nsPnT