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Now we get everything is a huge, wasteful, cardboard box. My flatmate recently ordered sponges from Amazon. A fucking cardboard box for something that you could
by djsumdog 9y ago
Now we get everything is a huge, wasteful, cardboard box. My flatmate recently ordered sponges from Amazon. A fucking cardboard box for something that you could buy at Wal-Greens for the same price, and where hundreds of them are shipped per box.
- brndnmtthws 9y agoAt least cardboard decomposes, whereas plastic remains in a landfill for eternity.
- twobyfour 9y agoThose clamshells are now recyclable. Do you not recycle your cardboard? BTW, landfills aren't great environments for decomposition even for paper and cardboard - the weight and compression make for a hostile environment for aerobic microbes and for the larger animals (rodents, insects, worms) that usually help with the first round of decomposition and increasing the surface area available to the microbes. If you dig into a landfill, you can often find 75-year-old newspapers (made of some of the least durable materials around) completely intact. Mid-to-late 20thC landfills are the worst of all because there's so much plastic and styrofoam, the ratio of decomposable materials is very low.
- bunderbunder 9y agoI don't know that that's really so bad. If we don't want that stuff for any particular reason, then I'd rather its carbon also stay underground rather than being converted into carbon dioxide and released back into the atmosphere.
- raisedbyninjas 9y agoWaste is waste but at least cardboard is sourced from renewable tree farms and when it's dumped in a landfill it is sequestering carbon.
- graphitezepp 9y agoPeople worrying about paper waste has become a pet peeve of mine. Get your plastic use down first please.