Plastic bag bans and fees reduce harmful bag litter on shorelines

Re:Plastic bag bans and fees reduce harmful bag litter on sh... by serial_dev on Saturday June 21, 2025 @03:05PM (#44339928)

Not only that, they now sell all kinds of vegetables in plastic. I would like to buy 3-4 "loose“ carrots for a meal, I cannot.

I can only buy a 1 kg bag of carrot and it's plastic. One kilogram of carrot is a huge amount for my dietary habits, and I need to throw away usually half of the carrot. Now multiply it by about ten for the different vegetables.

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Re:Plastic bag bans and fees reduce harmful bag litter on sh... by trollbridge on Saturday June 21, 2025 @05:16PM (#44340786)

Mangos? Wrapped in plastic. Other fruits? Often packaged in styrofoam. Meats? Styrofoam package or vacuum sealed plastic.

I sort my rubbish for what can be composted, is metal, what can be burned ecologically, and what must be thrown away. A normal household level of buying ingredients results in a mountain of plastic trash with no ecological way to dispose of it (other than landfills assuming the landfill is run properly, which they are where I live… but no way to guarantee it will stay that way for the next several hundred years).

I won’t even get into the nightmare of plastic toys, one of which I found had dangerous levels of lead despite being a newish toy from a responsible source (Melissa & Doug), and I was unable to get any government agency interested in investigating further.

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