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> driven by a religious public that uses single-use plastic to help comply with religious dietary law Say what now? As someone who knows this religious dietary

by ars 4y ago

> driven by a religious public that uses single-use plastic to help comply with religious dietary law Say what now? As someone who knows this religious dietary law quite well, I have never heard of this ever. In addition you have to pay for each bag in the supermarket in Israel, those disposable bags are not free, so I really doubt they are wasting them that way. https://www.gov.il/en/departments/news/decrease_of_74_percent_in_plastic_bags_consumption_in_2019 https://www.gov.il/en/departments/news/decrease_of_74_percen...

solatic 4y ago
Source: https://m.calcalistech.com/Article.aspx?guid=3741791 https://m.calcalistech.com/Article.aspx?guid=3741791
- ars 4y ago
  Did you read your own source? There is zero connection to anything religious. Only convenience. And this article is from 2018, in 2019 they passed laws that dramatically reduced plastic waste.
  - solatic 4y ago
    Quote: > Much of the consumption of disposable tableware in Israel can be linked to the country’s ultra-orthodox population. Netanel Leifer, an editor for online magazine Kikar Hashabat, which caters to ultra-orthodox readers, told Calcalist that ultra-orthodox neighborhoods have hundreds of disposables stores. “For every convenient store, there is a store selling disposable tableware. It is very common,” he said. Sure, the article gets into the convenience aspect of it, but for religious consumers, single-use plastics help tremendously with simply avoiding issues of cross-contamination of dairy and meat. Synagogues hosting light refreshments and meals do not need to maintain kitchens with strict supervision when there are no dishes to be washed, and neighbors who bring food over do not need to worry about whether their dishes were mistakenly used or washed incorrectly (i.e. households that keep separate meat/dairy sinks) if there are no dishes to return. If you want a more recent source, feel free: https://www.ynet.co.il/environment-science/article/sjzqqpxco https://www.ynet.co.il/environment-science/article/sjzqqpxco (Hebrew). Two years after that initial attempt in 2019, there's still 1.3 billion NIS spent per year on nearly 70,000 tons of single-use plastic, with more than 1/3 the population using single-use plastic on a daily basis and more than half using single-use plastic cups for drinking water from home/office cold water dispensers.

by ars 4y ago

solatic 4y ago

Source: https://m.calcalistech.com/Article.aspx?guid=3741791 https://m.calcalistech.com/Article.aspx?guid=3741791

ars 4y ago
Did you read your own source? There is zero connection to anything religious. Only convenience. And this article is from 2018, in 2019 they passed laws that dramatically reduced plastic waste.
- solatic 4y ago
  Quote: > Much of the consumption of disposable tableware in Israel can be linked to the country’s ultra-orthodox population. Netanel Leifer, an editor for online magazine Kikar Hashabat, which caters to ultra-orthodox readers, told Calcalist that ultra-orthodox neighborhoods have hundreds of disposables stores. “For every convenient store, there is a store selling disposable tableware. It is very common,” he said. Sure, the article gets into the convenience aspect of it, but for religious consumers, single-use plastics help tremendously with simply avoiding issues of cross-contamination of dairy and meat. Synagogues hosting light refreshments and meals do not need to maintain kitchens with strict supervision when there are no dishes to be washed, and neighbors who bring food over do not need to worry about whether their dishes were mistakenly used or washed incorrectly (i.e. households that keep separate meat/dairy sinks) if there are no dishes to return. If you want a more recent source, feel free: https://www.ynet.co.il/environment-science/article/sjzqqpxco https://www.ynet.co.il/environment-science/article/sjzqqpxco (Hebrew). Two years after that initial attempt in 2019, there's still 1.3 billion NIS spent per year on nearly 70,000 tons of single-use plastic, with more than 1/3 the population using single-use plastic on a daily basis and more than half using single-use plastic cups for drinking water from home/office cold water dispensers.