• Laser@feddit.org
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    Plastic is such a fucking disease. There are so few items you can buy in a supermarket that aren’t somehow covered in it. I get it, it’s super convenient. Which is why as long as it’s legal, the situation won’t change.

    I think heavy taxes on plastic could change the situation; if plastic packaging isn’t economically viable, alternatives will be used.

    This would be totally unpopular I’m sure, so it will probably won’t come before climate change killed us.

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      I hate it so much. I can’t buy shit without plastic.

      They should just take a deposit for reusable ceramic, glass, or metal containers. If you want to keep it, keep it; if it is fine, you just return it and get your deposit. They can be sanitized.

      In bakeries, deli, and butcher sections in supermarkets, everything is plastic.

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      Everything is wrapped in plastic now when it wasn’t like it 30 years ago. I think the side-effects of microplastics are going to affect every child alive today for life.

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      I was so happy that a lot of places were banning plastic during the pandemic. The large trend only lasted a year in my country, but at least some businesses have dropped plastic bags altogether. Small wins?