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Can you believe they really used to hand cups and plates made of a material that could take over a million years to decompose and called it a "disposable"? (st
by culi 4y ago
Can you believe they really used to hand cups and plates made of a material that could take over a million years to decompose and called it a "disposable"?
(styrofoam)
- switchbak 4y agoNot to mention useful materials like glass and aluminum. I think future generations, if there are any, will look back on us as being extraordinarily bizarre in our greed and waste.
- mmastrac 4y agoTechnically anything is disposable if it's cheap enough. We just need to start counting externalities.
- SilasX 4y ago“Can you believe they had the energy and engineering skill to excavate and rebury massive chunks of earth just to get rid of trash?”
- gruez 4y ago"disposable" just means it's... disposable. In other words, that you can dispose of it. What makes you think "disposable" implies it will readily degrade in the environment?
- MattPalmer1086 4y agoThe point is that future people will think us insane for making disposable things that are not decomposable or recyclable.
- culi 4y agoThe point is that we really shouldn't be telling people to throw these away. We have no solution for handling them, no way to recycle them. Pretty much everything is "disposable" if you're being pedantic. I can throw away a couch or a mug as well, but there's a reason those aren't marketed as "disposable"