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The federal government is calling for input from grocers, food and beverage producers, provincial governments and the general population.

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[-] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago

Wish they would go after companies that produce millions upon millions of tonnes of plastic bullshit. I’m not sorry if you created some widget, gadget, toy and it’s soul purpose is to be an injection molded happy meal 5 minute amusement piece. Capitalism… blah blah yeah yeah I know. A shift needs to happen.

[-] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago

While the plastic gadgets are wasteful, they don't hold a candle to all the unnecessary food packaging that's used. Just tear apart one of your garbage bags, and see how much is food-related packaging and how much is gadgets.

I visited the US (WV) recently, and I was appalled by how much waste goes unrecycled. At home (Europe) our family produces one bag of unrecycled waste every 2 weeks, in WV we produced 6 bags in 2 weeks, and that's while living in European style (refillable water bottles, declining plastic bags for groceries, buying unpackaged produce, etc.).

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Nearly every food item on the shelf has plastic. Aluminum cans are lined with plastic on the inside, glass bottles have a plastic freshness seal/cap. Even pasta boxes, one of the few cardboard packaged goods that don't have an inner plastic liner often have a little plastic window so you can see what the pasta looks like.

And yet we're being told that plastic bags are the problem. Literally the only plastic thing you get from the grocery store that isn't single use. Instead we have paper bags which are bulkier and have a higher carbon footprint, and we still end up with a bunch of actually single use plastic bags because we no longer have anything to use as small garbage bags.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I'm old enough to remember that grocery store only had paper bags, and replaced them with plastic bags because we were using too much paper and it was killing all the trees.

Now we're back to paper bags...

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

That was a lie. I worked in groceries back in the 90s and the store owner said that the paper sacks cost him 5 cents and the plastic bags were less than 1 cent each... So stop handing out paper unless people ask for it!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I did not know that. I was a kid in the 1970s/80s when the change came to the part of Canada I grew up in... and I remember it as a "too many trees chopped down" thing. Did some digging and... damn...

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, greenwashing is a huge thing. Most everything corporations do for "the environment" is bullshit used to place the problems on the individual consumers and not the actual perpetrators. Companies only care about that money.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

That was a marketing campaign by the petrochem industry to get plastic bags into stores, and it worked.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

BRING BACK PAPER! I have textbooks to cover with doodles on brown paper.

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