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Re:Plastic bans work. Billions of plastic bags were avoided ... by grecy on Sunday February 04, 2024 @04:25PM (#39254649)
There are laws against plastic straws and plastic bags.

There are laws against chemicals that are known to cause environmental harm.

There are laws against vehicles that pollute too much. Soon there will be laws against cars vehicles that pollute at all.

All we have to do is make laws, and more and more of them are coming.

Again, it doesn't matter what an individual wants.

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Re:Plastic bans work. Billions of plastic bags were avoided ... by JackSlateur on Sunday February 04, 2024 @04:53PM (#39254897)
Your trust in laws is fascinating

For humans, laws and rules are meant to be overstepped : this is how our species got so far : by considering rules, laws and traditions, and say "well, whatever, I will try it my way and see how it goes"

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Re:Plastic bans work. Billions of plastic bags were avoided ... by grecy on Sunday February 04, 2024 @05:28PM (#39255177)
And how is that working out?

In recent months dozens of shops got multi-million dollar fines from the EPA for "deleting " diesel emission equipment. Now it's unheard of in the US.

It works.

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