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About "reusing": using less plastic is great, but as far as I'm concerned, the main problem is not plastic products that are used for a long time (and that incl
by rob74 3y ago
About "reusing": using less plastic is great, but as far as I'm concerned, the main problem is not plastic products that are used for a long time (and that includes Lego), but single-use plastic. It can even be counter-productive: salt and pepper mills made out of plastic are practically indestructible, but no longer "fashionable", so we recently got some made of glass, and promptly ended up breaking one of them and having to replace it, which is also not that good for the environment (glass production needs a lot of energy).
- vanderZwan 3y ago> which is also not that good for the environment (glass production needs a lot of energy) Not saying you're wrong, but how many glass bottles do you use on a monthly basis? The embodied energy of a salt/pepper mill does not compare there I think.
- cush 3y agowhataboutism doesn’t help an argument about needless waste
- vanderZwan 3y agoIt's not a whataboutism, it's an "optimize the right problem first" remark.
- cush 3y agoSame thing. Why not both? What makes jars the right problem to optimize? People don’t consume jars, they consume jarred things. One’s consumption of jarred mustard is unrelated to jarred pepper. You’re assuming they haven’t thought about other jarred things. They want to avoid wasteful packaging
- cush 3y agoDon’t get me started on salt mills. Whoever convinced consumers that salt needs to be freshly ground is a marketing genius. So wasteful
- Gigachad 3y agoA mill lets you control how course you want the salt. It comes in big chunks which you might want to use as is, and then the mill lets you configure exactly how fine to grind.