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Re:Canada declares plastics toxic, paving the way for restri... by hirundo on Friday May 21, 2021 @06:53PM (#27240945)
Plastic packaging makes hygienic food more accessible as an effective and cheap barrier to pathogens, incoming and outgoing. Such public health interests should be balanced against their toxicity. It's easier for wealthier people to substitute with restaurants, servants and higher quality materials. So a general plastic ban would amount to a regressive tax on sanitary food.
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Re:Canada declares plastics toxic, paving the way for restri... by ncallaway on Friday May 21, 2021 @07:16PM (#27241122)
Agree that a case by case analysis is appropriate, but I don’t really see any world where the cost/benefit analysis of plastic and water would be anywhere near the same ballpark
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Re:Canada declares plastics toxic, paving the way for restri... by caenorst on Friday May 21, 2021 @07:40PM (#27241353)
Why is this comment downvoted? It seems to be nuanced, or are there some studies showing that this is absurd? I'm genuinly curious
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Re:Canada declares plastics toxic, paving the way for restri... by cmrdporcupine on Friday May 21, 2021 @07:42PM (#27241368)
Because of the "dihydrogen monoxide" snark.
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Re:Canada declares plastics toxic, paving the way for restri... by caenorst on Friday May 21, 2021 @07:49PM (#27241432)
Oh that was trolling, didn't pay attention about this part...
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Re:Canada declares plastics toxic, paving the way for restri... by gogopuppygogo on Friday May 21, 2021 @06:57PM (#27240984)
That penn and teller episode with the petition for removing dihydrogen monoxide from schools was fantastic.

https://youtu.be/zVxypRWZODQ

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Re:Canada declares plastics toxic, paving the way for restri... by amanaplanacanal on Friday May 21, 2021 @07:16PM (#27241134)
Using obscure terminology to confuse people certainly makes a good joke :-) I'm not sure it really tells us much though.
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Re:Canada declares plastics toxic, paving the way for restri... by waterhouse on Friday May 21, 2021 @07:32PM (#27241282)
It tells us that people are willing to sign a petition to ban a thing while clearly not having done their research on the thing, just because an authoritative-seeming stranger told them something plausible. It means that such petitions shouldn't be taken seriously; and, to the extent that they are serious, it implies something about people's recklessness with regard to policymaking.

(I wonder how such a survey would fare today, when most people have smartphones with browsers and an internet connection.)

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