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Post #439,945
by Another Scott
9/22/21 1:11:30 PM
9/22/21 1:11:30 PM
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New TJs will do that with wine if you want.
Makes sense, but in practice it puts the recycling in the hands of the customer rather than the company. I just have them put them in my cloth grocery bags (without the stupid paper sleeves please!) instead.

Yeah, paper production is dirty. I remember Ben Tilly talking about it, back in the day... Still, it's stuff from the biosphere, rather than 100M year old fossil fuel being brought to the surface...

There are no easy answers, but some are better than others.

Cheers,
Scott.
Post #439,963
by Andrew Grygus
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9/22/21 9:26:11 PM
9/22/21 9:26:11 PM
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New When I shopped at TJs . . .
. . I knew where the boxes were piled, so I just grabbed one before hitting the checkout line.

Haven't been in a Trader Joe's since the COVID hit. Standing a half hour in a line waiting to get in didn't appeal to me. Sunland produce started stocking a mountain of the beer I bought there, and everything else I bought there was easy to replace elsewhere. I was already buying all my wine from Sunland Produce, better wine for lower cost.

Boxes, I saw them up with a serrated bread knife and use the cardboard, with used paper napkins under it and a small bit of wood over, to start a small short fire every morning. I'm a Pagan, you see, and we like our little ritual fires, and it keeps us on the good side of the Fire Gods.
     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

I had to wonder. What does a Drag Sheep wear? Wolf's clothing?
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