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Same experience here. Every single service will credit you for mistakes but it only takes one or two mistakes before the convenience factor is destroyed. I’ve

Same experience here. Every single service will credit you for mistakes but it only takes one or two mistakes before the convenience factor is destroyed. I’ve had the core ingredient missing from my boxes before. As in, the core ingredient is in the recipe name! I also found the produce quality to be hit or miss. Spinach especially was regularly too wet and thus spoiled before I even had a chance to use it. That never happens to me with store bought produce. The ecological impact also started to wear on me. I felt gross with the amount of plastic I was throwing out.

TomVDB 8y ago
> The ecological impact also started to wear on me. I felt gross with the amount of plastic I was throwing out. That was by far my biggest concern. I'm not very environmentally conscious, but this was just too much.
- Waterluvian 8y ago
  A lot of people here are saying "plastic trash." Are plastics not recycled in the U.S.? Of course, eliminating them is way better than any form of recycling, but I'm fixated on the use of "trash" to qualify plastic refuse.
  - DangitBobby 8y ago
    Many places in the US do not offer recycling pickup at all. I live very near a major metro area and the only recycling pickup available for us is cardboard. This is the first place I've ever lived that offers any sort of recycling pickup whatsoever. I've only ever noticed this problem in Southern states, however.
  - ipsum2 8y ago
    Check out https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/national-sword/ https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/national-sword/, an incredibly insightful look into how recycling works in the US.
  - TomVDB 8y ago
    Even if they are recycled, it’s still an enormous waste of energy. I mean: they package 2 strands of thyme in a tiny little plastic bag. They have these tiny plastic boxes with a spoonful of sauce. No recycling program is capable of reusing that kind of stuff efficiently and even if they could, it’s still simply an unnecessary luxury.
  - ams6110 8y ago
    Pretty much not. Plastic may be collected as recyclable, but there's really no market for it. It mostly goes to landfills.
  - pandapower2 8y ago
    >Are plastics not recycled in the U.S.? You may want to look into what specifically is recycled wherever you are. I'm in Australia and recently discovered that much of the plastic that I have been putting in the recycling bins are not actually recycled. Lots of kinds of plastic are theoretically recyclable however in practice only a few specific types of plastic are actually recycled.
  - SN76477 8y ago
    Less and less plastic is being recycled every year in the USA.
  - jzl 8y ago
    Plastic recycling is partially a myth. It's not just a US problem. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/06/28/623972937/china-has-refused-to-recycle-the-wests-plastics-what-now https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/06/28/6239729...
  - piva00 8y ago
    Reduce, reuse and recycle. The 3 R's stand in order of what is more impactful to counter environmental change, so just reduce the amount of unnecessary plastic instead of thinking about the end of the lifecycle.
  - eeeeeeeeeeeee 8y ago
    There is a lot of evidence that even the "recyclable" plastic is not truly recycled. And there are varying degrees of recyclability based on the type of plastic. And as you would imagine, the worst plastic for recycle is often used because it's cheaper to produce. Paper is almost always going to be better than plastic anyway, but obviously costs more. The original article kind of hinted at the absurdity of these meal kits -- it's no joke, you literally receive a single scallion in a long plastic bag. So that bag has really no use to you outside of holding a scallion. The more I read about recycling, at least in the U.S., it feels like it's a grand scheme to make us ignore the amount of trash we create/consume instead of simply using materials that are better for the environment.

TomVDB 8y ago

> The ecological impact also started to wear on me. I felt gross with the amount of plastic I was throwing out. That was by far my biggest concern. I'm not very environmentally conscious, but this was just too much.

Waterluvian 8y ago
A lot of people here are saying "plastic trash." Are plastics not recycled in the U.S.? Of course, eliminating them is way better than any form of recycling, but I'm fixated on the use of "trash" to qualify plastic refuse.
- DangitBobby 8y ago
  Many places in the US do not offer recycling pickup at all. I live very near a major metro area and the only recycling pickup available for us is cardboard. This is the first place I've ever lived that offers any sort of recycling pickup whatsoever. I've only ever noticed this problem in Southern states, however.
- ipsum2 8y ago
  Check out https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/national-sword/ https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/national-sword/, an incredibly insightful look into how recycling works in the US.
- TomVDB 8y ago
  Even if they are recycled, it’s still an enormous waste of energy. I mean: they package 2 strands of thyme in a tiny little plastic bag. They have these tiny plastic boxes with a spoonful of sauce. No recycling program is capable of reusing that kind of stuff efficiently and even if they could, it’s still simply an unnecessary luxury.
- ams6110 8y ago
  Pretty much not. Plastic may be collected as recyclable, but there's really no market for it. It mostly goes to landfills.
- pandapower2 8y ago
  >Are plastics not recycled in the U.S.? You may want to look into what specifically is recycled wherever you are. I'm in Australia and recently discovered that much of the plastic that I have been putting in the recycling bins are not actually recycled. Lots of kinds of plastic are theoretically recyclable however in practice only a few specific types of plastic are actually recycled.
- SN76477 8y ago
  Less and less plastic is being recycled every year in the USA.
- jzl 8y ago
  Plastic recycling is partially a myth. It's not just a US problem. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/06/28/623972937/china-has-refused-to-recycle-the-wests-plastics-what-now https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/06/28/6239729...
- piva00 8y ago
  Reduce, reuse and recycle. The 3 R's stand in order of what is more impactful to counter environmental change, so just reduce the amount of unnecessary plastic instead of thinking about the end of the lifecycle.
- eeeeeeeeeeeee 8y ago
  There is a lot of evidence that even the "recyclable" plastic is not truly recycled. And there are varying degrees of recyclability based on the type of plastic. And as you would imagine, the worst plastic for recycle is often used because it's cheaper to produce. Paper is almost always going to be better than plastic anyway, but obviously costs more. The original article kind of hinted at the absurdity of these meal kits -- it's no joke, you literally receive a single scallion in a long plastic bag. So that bag has really no use to you outside of holding a scallion. The more I read about recycling, at least in the U.S., it feels like it's a grand scheme to make us ignore the amount of trash we create/consume instead of simply using materials that are better for the environment.