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Bags are more environmentally friendly than cartons or jugs, even if the bags are landfilled and the jugs and/or cartons are recycled. Source: https://theconversation.com/milk-jugs-cartons-or-plastic-bag...
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If you pull up on the opened corner and then squeeze it shut with your fingers, it will stay closed until you pour from it again.
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There is also less plastic in milk bags than plastic jugs. Cartons also have plastic on both the inside and outside to make them waterproof. I think the cartons have less plastic than the bags but it is harder to recycle either the cardboar
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While milk bags are not as environmentally friendly as glass, glass is very heavy and expensive to transport and requires a fair bit of energy to wash and sterilize for reuse. Compared to cardboard cartons (which are lined with plastic to m
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The outer bag contains three 1.333 litre pouches of milk for a total of four litres per bag. You definitely want to check that no milk has leaked from the pouches into the outer bag before purchasing. They are fairly robust though. They can
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While only 5 of Canada's 9 provinces have bagged milk today (Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia), in the late 1960's when it was introduced, all provinces had it. Four provinces dropped it betwee
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They said "play", not "make".
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That's long enough for most uses. Make it 15 or 20 minutes and it would be long enough for every reasonable use.
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A reusable plastic straw is a lot better than a one-use plastic straw.
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125,000 seconds = 34.72 hours
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It's showing as #19 for me: https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/
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The BEGINs were replace by THEN (for IFs) and DO (for WHILEs and FORs). They still need something to denote the ENDs. Instead of saying "THEN BEGIN" or "DO BEGIN", you can drop the BEGIN and just assume it's there.
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Then sort by New or Old instead of by Best or Top.
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Don't follow people. Follow hashtags.
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Yes, I'm following dozens of hashtags and only 3 people. This gives me a very high ratio of interesting content to uninteresting content.
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Modula-2, Ada and Oberon removed most of the BEGINs except the one between variable declaration and the start of the code.
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At least two other comments on this post says their prices are also going up soon.
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C has been a disaster for software stability and security. We should have stuck with Ada or Oberon.
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Confirmation of your stats here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpiH-Y-HOvE
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The Aptera is more of a "never plug in" vehicle, if you live in a sunny area. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpiH-Y-HOvE
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No Edge?
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In that case you can switch to it with no effort.
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"destroys entire condo building". Doubt.
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ICEVs have been increasing in efficiency for 100 years. EVs have been for less than 20 years. If EVs are already halfway to being efficient enough for winter driving, imagine how efficient they could be in another 80 years.
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As quickly as the percentage of ICEVs goes down. When one closes, the ones around it will gain customers, helping them stay open.
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FTFA: “If we can redistribute these resources—instead of putting them in a Hummer, put them in smaller cars or e-bikes—that’s preferable,” said Jay Turner Or even PHEVs which typically have 1/10th the batteries and 1/10th the rang
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India and Nigeria and growing really fast though. China's population is going to collapse over the next 50 to 70 years.
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Many of the small dog breeds were bred for killing rodents and other small critters around homes, castles, factories, etc.
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It hasn't been around as long as Python.
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3y ago
Radiation is also barbaric.
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