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Products like chips should be forced to use biodegradable bags (whether wax paper, bioplastics, ...). Similarly, disposable drinking straws, cutlery, the little
by jacobolus 8y ago
Products like chips should be forced to use biodegradable bags (whether wax paper, bioplastics, ...). Similarly, disposable drinking straws, cutlery, the little wrappers they come in, etc. should be biodegradable.
At most it might cost a few cents more per unit, but when millions of them get dumped in a river somewhere, they won’t stay there permanently.
Trying to eliminate packaging altogether is hopeless at this point, I’d wager.
- toomuchtodo 8y agoPepsico's SunChips use a biodegradable bag [1], so it is possible. [1] https://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2014/03/18/pepsis-biodegradable-backlash-snack-bag-was-too-noisy https://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2014/03/18/pepsis-biodegradabl...
- zeth___ 8y agoSure in the third world. Doing that in the first world makes about as much sense as a tax on bowel movements because people in India don't use toilets and we need to pay for the increase in communicable diseases.