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Grex > Agora46 > #234: Go placidly amidst the noise and waste, but reconsider it | |
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russ
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Go placidly amidst the noise and waste, but reconsider it
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Sep 20 04:13 UTC 2003 |
I was reading the BBC web site and found comments to a story
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3116318.stm to be exact)
which reminded me of all the enforced waste we're faced with
in daily life:
Everything in the supermarket is covered in
plastic - there's a company that even sells
bananas and oranges in plastic boxes! I regularly
refuse plastic bags in shops, which seems to cause
a great deal of trouble for the staff. In
Debenhams, they tried to tell me that I had to
take a bag. It was only when I said I wouldn't buy
the product if they made me take a bag that they
relented.
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Whilst with other fruit and veg, you can just put
as much as you want in a bag, all organic fruit
and veg is pre-packed in plastic. It's just daft
when you could end up harming the environment more
by buying organic than not!
These comments were in regard to plastic recycling, but one
could easily find many more bits of enforced waste and other
ridiculousness just by looking around.
So look around. What's wasteful and could benefit from rethinking?
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jaklumen
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response 1 of 21:
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Sep 20 04:52 UTC 2003 |
There is obvious stuff out there that is just pretty wasteful--
certain foodstuffs that just have *way* too much packaging. Nabisco
Lunchables have got to be the worst offenders and I think they were on
some list as such.
I'd imagine a lot of the convenience foods are heavy on the packaging,
and any other product that supposedly saves time. And the more
dispoable it is, well, no-brainer.
I myself need to remember to take a canvas bag to the grocery store,
especially where the one we go to allows you to bag your own. (No
need to ask or make a hassle.) I hate having to deal with excess
plastic bags, so I'd think I'd remember by now.
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slynne
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Sep 20 09:53 UTC 2003 |
Haha, the grocery store you go to *lets* you bag your own groceries? At
the ghetto grocery store near my house, the cashier rolls her eyes and
has this great "oh how I suffer" look if you dont bag your own
groceries. She doesnt ask you if you want paper or plastic either. You
get what you get.
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