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How will any individual's actions counteract the approval of a single fracking or tar sand site? Or the choice by a supermarket to package everything in plastic
by NeedMoreTea 8y ago
How will any individual's actions counteract the approval of a single fracking or tar sand site? Or the choice by a supermarket to package everything in plastic, and continue to add to this in 2019? Or any other multi-national?
Starbucks straw-free solution was a plastic lid that uses more plastic than the straw.
Family made major changes, but it feels increasingly pointless, and increasingly like spiting ourselves for no reason. Every shop brings home more plastic, used in ever more profligate ways, and mostly impossible to avoid. What was the point changing?
- dd36 8y agoIt’s cumulative. Single use plastic should be highly taxed.
- ethagnawl 8y ago> Starbucks straw-free solution was a plastic lid that uses more plastic than the straw. This may be true, but it was still a worthwhile initiative. The new lids can be recycled, whereas the straws couldn't[0], and their new policy has drawn a considerable amount of attention to the issue of single use plastics. 0: https://mic.com/articles/190171/starbucks-will-ban-plastic-straws-by-2020-but-is-its-new-lid-really-any-better-for-the-environment#.SWvB7wOXc https://mic.com/articles/190171/starbucks-will-ban-plastic-s...