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> This is just naive and irrational. Ignoring the unnecessary ad hominem, this is as irrational, as baning leaded fuel or asbestos. Plastic will be the definin

> This is just naive and irrational. Ignoring the unnecessary ad hominem, this is as irrational, as baning leaded fuel or asbestos. Plastic will be the defining geological remainder of our human epoch. We are physically destroying the planet and our own healthy for the sake of wire buckles. [0] You claim this to be naive, yet this is the very proposal currently approved by 560 members of the EU parliament, in the new European Union Single-Use Plastics Directive 2019/904 [1] [2] Arguably the original proposal was ridiculously watered down so that only a short list of single-use plastic products are banned (likely due to industry lobbying). However, make no mistake, a ban is coming it is not a question of if but of when. The quicker the Coca-Cola's and Pepsico's and Nestlé's of the world wake up to this, the less they will hurt their bottom line with the overdue reckoning of consumer backlash and health related class suits. [0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Plastic+endocrine+disruptor https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Plastic+endocrine+disr... [1] https://time.com/5560105/european-union-plastic-ban/ https://time.com/5560105/european-union-plastic-ban/ [2] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/LSU/?uri=uriserv:OJ.L_.2019.155.01.0001.01.ENG https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/LSU/?uri=uriserv:...

lightgreen 6y ago
> this is as irrational, as baning leaded fuel or asbestos It's apples to oranges. Nobody really needs leaded fuel or asbestos. But single-use plastics has a lot of reasonable applications, like ones I gave above: multi-use things which are effectively single-use. > You claim this to be naive, yet this is the very proposal currently approved by 560 members of the EU parliament, in the new European Union Single-Use Plastics Directive 2019/904 If MP were really smart people, we would already colonized Mars and other planets. They are just regular dudes who are pushed by voters, by industry and so on. > However, make no mistake, a ban is coming it is not a question of if but of when I'm certain of that. And that ban will do more harm then good. Like for example, people might start bying expensive multi-use things for single-use applications.

lightgreen 6y ago

> this is as irrational, as baning leaded fuel or asbestos It's apples to oranges. Nobody really needs leaded fuel or asbestos. But single-use plastics has a lot of reasonable applications, like ones I gave above: multi-use things which are effectively single-use. > You claim this to be naive, yet this is the very proposal currently approved by 560 members of the EU parliament, in the new European Union Single-Use Plastics Directive 2019/904 If MP were really smart people, we would already colonized Mars and other planets. They are just regular dudes who are pushed by voters, by industry and so on. > However, make no mistake, a ban is coming it is not a question of if but of when I'm certain of that. And that ban will do more harm then good. Like for example, people might start bying expensive multi-use things for single-use applications.