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Worrying about discarded eyeglasses as an "environmental impact" issue is a classic example of bikeshedding. I'll burn more gasoline driving home from work tha
by beat 8y ago
Worrying about discarded eyeglasses as an "environmental impact" issue is a classic example of bikeshedding.
I'll burn more gasoline driving home from work than the mass of a pair of eyeglasses. And I'll burn it in a car that has a 10-15 year lifespan and weighs about as much as 100,000 pairs of glasses (I'm guessing here, but it's at least in the tens of thousands).
Bikeshedding for purpose of condescension is one of the biggest and most avoidable sins of environmentalism. Don't do that.
- smolder 8y agoWhile I was replying in a thread that started about wasting frames for glasses, the parent poster seemed to have gone on a tangent about resource waste generally being insignificant next to human time costs. I did not mean to contend that saving the wasted glasses frames was needed.