But they have a plastic spout.
Bottles, then. UHT milk tends to come in cardboard cartons
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We must have extra-hardy fridge-resistant cardboard up here then...
But yeah, some of them also have that moronic piece of plastic. WTF is wrong with people, is it millennials[§] who can't open the ordinary old-fashioned kind or what? https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=uusavuttomuus ___ [§]: Yeah, I know what I'm actually after is "Gen-Z". -- Christian R. Conrad The Man Who Apparently Still Knows Fucking Everything Mail: Same username as at the top left of this post, at iki.fi |
Not sure where to put this, paying for trash
- (crazy)
- (26)
- Sept. 19, 2021, 10:21:33 AM EDT
I wish we'd get real about plastic
- (drook)
- (20)
- Sept. 20, 2021, 07:57:41 AM EDT
Thankfully over here it is starting to move, albeit slowly
- (pwhysall)
- (3)
- Sept. 20, 2021, 02:10:58 AM EDT
"Plastic cartons" sounds a bit of an oxymoron. YTH don't they use cardboard like sensible people?
-NT
- (CRConrad)
- (2)
- Sept. 20, 2021, 05:07:40 AM EDT
Bottles, then. UHT milk tends to come in cardboard cartons
- (pwhysall)
- (1)
- Sept. 20, 2021, 06:01:59 AM EDT
We must have extra-hardy fridge-resistant cardboard up here then...
- (CRConrad)
- Sept. 20, 2021, 12:32:23 PM EDT
The problem is that it's just cheaper to use virgin material.
- (static)
- (15)
- Sept. 20, 2021, 04:44:14 AM EDT
Put the cost of recycling into the tax
- (drook)
- (14)
- Sept. 20, 2021, 08:05:48 AM EDT
Here in California . . .
- (Andrew Grygus)
- (13)
- Sept. 20, 2021, 11:31:16 AM EDT
Someone with more time to look into this should crunch the numbers
- (drook)
- (12)
- Sept. 20, 2021, 02:59:57 PM EDT
Yes.
- (static)
- (11)
- Sept. 21, 2021, 11:09:27 PM EDT
We have (smallish) media "scandals" here from time to time, when municipalities...
- (CRConrad)
- Sept. 22, 2021, 05:10:47 AM EDT
We've got to pull the "Reduce" lever harder
- (drook)
- (9)
- Sept. 22, 2021, 09:39:11 AM EDT
Bag taxes.
- (Another Scott)
- (8)
- Sept. 22, 2021, 10:48:01 AM EDT
I can hear the screams from the supply chain already
- (drook)
- Sept. 22, 2021, 11:08:19 AM EDT
Ecology & taxes
- (Andrew Grygus)
- (6)
- Sept. 22, 2021, 11:38:12 AM EDT
I like how they do it at Costco
- (drook)
- (4)
- Sept. 22, 2021, 11:45:31 AM EDT
TJs will do that with wine if you want.
- (Another Scott)
- (1)
- Sept. 22, 2021, 01:11:30 PM EDT
When I shopped at TJs . . .
- (Andrew Grygus)
- Sept. 22, 2021, 09:26:11 PM EDT
Happens here.
- (static)
- Sept. 22, 2021, 09:05:46 PM EDT
But then you need to subtract all the FoodSaver repackaging plastic...
-NT
- (scoenye)
- Sept. 23, 2021, 07:26:45 PM EDT
What's in a name? (A piece of trash, by any other name, will still stink to high heaven...)
- (CRConrad)
- Sept. 23, 2021, 03:52:50 AM EDT
I got five to 10 van loads that I have to get rid of.
- (crazy)
- (4)
- Sept. 22, 2021, 05:12:31 PM EDT
Craigslist free, someone will come for the compressor
-NT
- (drook)
- (3)
- Sept. 22, 2021, 06:48:20 PM EDT
I gave him a week
- (crazy)
- (2)
- Sept. 22, 2021, 07:56:08 PM EDT
craigslist free to gleaners and metall recyclers
- (boxley)
- Sept. 22, 2021, 10:59:17 PM EDT
WTF, you got a free compressor, shouldn't you be over the moon?
-NT
- (CRConrad)
- Sept. 23, 2021, 03:47:04 AM EDT