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Re:Show HN: Find Eco-friendly alternatives to Products You U... by drankula3 on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @09:32AM (#19208049)
Re your second case: When economic incentives line up with environmental goals, progress is made. OP should have been transparent, but if someone makes a profit while improving other people's eco-footprints, it's a win-win.
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Re:Show HN: Find Eco-friendly alternatives to Products You U... by bluntfang on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @10:16AM (#19208429)
Replacing disposable plates with slightly more "eco friendly" disposable plates isn't really improving anyone's eco-footprint. It's reinforcing the idea that disposable anything is eco-friendly.
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Re:Show HN: Find Eco-friendly alternatives to Products You U... by CaramelSauce on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @10:58AM (#19208884)
Good is not the enemy of perfect. There are cases where disposable plates are more or less required. Food trucks/carts for example. One I frequent recently moved to using compostable plates.
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Re:Show HN: Find Eco-friendly alternatives to Products You U... by dkdbejwi383 on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @01:03PM (#19210210)
The eco solution would be to use actual plates that customers return, and are then washed and reused.
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Re:Show HN: Find Eco-friendly alternatives to Products You U... by bluntfang on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @03:07PM (#19211476)
>There are cases where disposable plates are more or less required.

I completely disagree, although there are cases where non-disposable plates are too expensive to have due to various reasons, but if that's the case you probably shouldn't be doing what you're doing.

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