Mushrooms Can Eat Plastic, Petroleum and CO2 (2018)

Re:Mushrooms Can Eat Plastic, Petroleum and CO2 (2018) by JosephRedfern on Thursday December 03, 2020 @07:45AM (#25288297)

Bulk buying isn't always the solution though (perishable goods, for instance), and isn't always affordable. Your financial situation shouldn't dictate your ability to avoid unnecessary waste.

In my opinion, the move should be towards normalising reusable containers (where practical). Where I am, there are some more "specialist" shops who are doing great work in this area, but it's not mainstream and is often more expensive than just going to the supermarket.

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Re:Mushrooms Can Eat Plastic, Petroleum and CO2 (2018) by lkuty on Thursday December 03, 2020 @08:48AM (#25288770)

You're right, I guess I used the wrong word... "bulk". I wanted to say that we should buy food which has no container and as such no plastic container. Not that we should buy them in large quantities, if it's what has been implied by my use of the word.

Anyway, someone thought I should be thanked with another -1. Can we go to -Infinity ?

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Re:Mushrooms Can Eat Plastic, Petroleum and CO2 (2018) by SamBam on Thursday December 03, 2020 @09:24AM (#25289071)

Yeah, it's confusing terminology, because "buying in bulk" usually means buying large quantities, but the "bulk bins" of e.g. nuts at the grocery store really means "buy as much as you want."

But when the tomatoes are loose, we don't call that bulk.

Anyway, we can just say "without packaging."

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