While banning all singles use plastic, how on earth did they miss removing PM Jr. ?
Single-Use Plastics Ban
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It's takes decades to replace a tree cut down to make single-use paper straws and bags. Aren't we supposed to be growing more trees to help the environment?
We can all bring our own cutlery to the food court. They can use glass bottles to deliver fluids. It will just cost a lot more to produced and transport, because of the increased weight. Plastic bottles, and food and product containers will be here FOREVER.
Both are consumables.
I use cloth bags at stores(not just grocery) and carry a nice wood set of cutlery and straw. We make sure to tell delivery orders no cutlery with the food. We use cloth napkins. Its really not difficilt to reduce things. A few thoughts and planning ahead.
Wooden cutlery already exists as do paper straws
I am more puzzled at why its ok to kill trees than recycle plastic cutlery
Its not hard to melt plastic down and recycle it; its easier than recycling paper/wood products
There's nothing wrong with the reusable felt grocery bags, Longo's sent me three for being a loyal customer. I sent a promotional to Ali Chiasson to do a special feature on them, you can persuade better with honey than with vinegar.
It may be inconvenient for you, but this is a democracy. Enough people voted for him that you are SOL.
No plastic is not recycle - at least not single use. At best they are produce unusable waste products and are mostly recycled. Assuming this is the case, are food is now having posionious plastic in their stomaches - it takes 100,000 of years for plastics to be broken down, and weeks months or a few years for paper and wood products.
At the present rate, meat will be a toxic food source within a generation, or many sources of it (all fish for example). We could int heory change the way we farm herbivores (stop feeding them meat for one) but this would cause the price to massively incresse - similar to Japan where steaks are in the hundreds of dollars.
Sure if your a vegterian I suppose plastic is not so bad as long as you hate animals.
Plastics have entered human food chain, study shows
PARIS (AFP) - Bits of plastic have been detected in the faeces of people in Europe, Russia and Japan, according to research claiming to show for the first time the widespread presence of plastics in the human food chain. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
This whale had more than 88 pounds of plastic in its stomach when it died
The animal in the Philippines likely starved because its stomach was full of plastic, not food.
www.nationalgeographic.com
Well part of democracy is speaking up. The vote is not the only part of the democratic process. That being said, baring a large group opposing the move, it is the will of the people.
Even if the move is mostly good, I am sure it could be improved.
"When paper does breakdown in a landfill, it is usually due to an anaerobic instead of an aerobic process of decomposition. ... In the case of paper, anaerobic decomposition is detrimental since it produces methane gas. Methane is combustible and highly dangerous, making landfills a greater environmental hazard."
In fact, it just so happens paper takes up the most space in landfills.
I never told him that he couldn't.
But the vote sure goes a looong way toward determining who governs. He was whining about Trudeau being in office and I basically said, deal with it.
Plastic cutlery #6 *IS* recyclable
The issue is some cities (eg Toronto) do not bother recycling it because they feel it is not cost effective
Same with grocery store plastic bags
Can be recycled but we do not do it
I feel the main issue is that these municipalities are trying to claim they recycle when vast majority of them do not actually recycle
There was an entire documentary about how these scam artists throw out like 80% of what we recycle into the trash
They also CAN recycle styrofoam containers, but again, cost
We would rather spend less and throw stuff away than actually invest in a recycling program
Why would i subsdize a product with my taxes? Sure, if each paper cup had alike a buck or ten cents or whatever tax to the manimlatlies to pay for this program - sure- but even then, I as a user have to worry about where I throw my coffee cup away so it can be recycled. The ban is more efficient solution since it follows a capalistic model - that is asuming human lazyness and greed vs. fantasy fantasy meliorism (first occasion to use that word ya!)
You do understand you PAY for garbage collection / recycling already right? Banning single use plastic simply means they change material to something else (eg you have seen wooden utensils at fast food joints, or how McD got rid of styrofoam (which is recyclable) and replaced it with cardboard (which is also recyclable). Irony is NEITHER styro nor food waste cardboard are recycled lol
None of the profits those privately owned companies make EVER comes back to you via tax refunds
So right now you pay $1 for the company to make $5
If they invested in proper equipment and procedures you would pay $1 for the company to make $2
Hence the companies moral outrage
Recycling is in itself a scam
Private business raking in millions and not actually recycling the vast majority of materials (only cherry picking the most lucrative ones)
About paper straws: I hate them. They are not smooth and make a strange feeling in your mouth. And I like drink with the straw especially because I like lots of ice in my drink. In fact, since Subway switched to paper straws almost two year ago, I started to go their less often than before. And with paper bags vs plastic bags: try to put carry 20 paper bags in one hand in once much harder than with plastic bags. And, as many had mentioned, the environmental costs of transporting much heavier paper bags is not that insignificant. If the government wanted to really have ecological effect, they should have looked at unnecessary packaging for many products. Far more ways to cut back at production/packaging.
