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The Plastic Crisis/Environment Thread

https://grist.org/climate/new-york-states-bag-ban-is-finally-being-enforced/

Despite the plastic and fossil fuel industries’ best efforts, New York’s plastic bag ban lives on.

More than seven months after a statewide law banning most single-use plastic bags technically went into effect, the New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is now able to enforce it. As of last week, retailers that hand out plastic bags could face fines of up to $500. Paper bags are still allowed, but in some locations come with a 5-cent surcharge.
 
When I was a kid my mom took her shopping bag down the shops and they tipped the spuds straight into it. Those days will return.
 
Gillette said:
When I was a kid my mom took her shopping bag down the shops and they tipped the spuds straight into it. Those days will return.
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Yes, agreed, remember it well as my granddad had a green grocer shop on the Bristol Road and I used to go and work there in the holidays!
 
I do my shopping now with two boxes in a trolly, one for my parents stuff, one for mine. Works great and they can be used over and over. Works especially well in Sainsbury as I use their app to scan the goods, pack them into the boxes and boom, all done.
 
Quite interesting, especially the conflict in thoughts, between concentrating on recycling (throwing away products) as opposed to making better quality to last longer.

H&M calls it the Green Machine: a piece of technology it says is the first to separate and recycle polyester and cotton-blended clothing at scale. Later this month, Monki, the Gen Z targeting womenswear brand owned by H&M, will drop the first commercial products made using its recycled fibres.

https://www.voguebusiness.com/susta...3VQueOwyr_QUcj9rTiJo-2fqsJD6OUT1HPCpEQLdD0bBI
 
Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Nestlé have been accused of “zero progress” on reducing plastic waste, after being named the world’s top plastic polluters for the third year in a row.

Coca-Cola was ranked the world’s No 1 plastic polluter by Break Free From Plastic in its annual audit, after its beverage bottles were the most frequently found discarded on beaches, rivers, parks and other litter sites in 51 of 55 nations surveyed. Last year it was the most frequently littered bottle in 37 countries, out of 51 surveyed.

It was found to be worse than PepsiCo and Nestlé combined: Coca-Cola branding was found on 13,834 pieces of plastic, with PepsiCo branding on 5,155 and Nestlé branding on 8,633.

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...top-plastic-polluters-for-third-year-in-a-row
 
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