I'm doing my part!
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The reality is more like there are just a few massive suppliers for restaurants. Sysco just offers paper straws and removes plastic ones and every establishment just orders a different SKU the next week.
The manufacture of straws on that scale can't be simple to ramp up though. Maybe they just speculated correctly on paper utensil production capacity?
Either way, there are opportunities for fast large scale change out there.
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What does that have to do with the production of new paper? Deforestation remains an ever increasing problem. It's not as bad as plastic, but recycling it is just as futile
Recycling paper (or not recycling) is far better than plastic is every respect. It's not so much futility in this case so much as inefficiency.
Paper also is rarely, if ever, fully recycled, usually being downcycled into rougher and rougher materials like cardboard and egg cartons. No matter how well it gets recycled, it's not going to displace primary production.
If you want to talk about futility here, the problem is way bigger than recycling. It's consumerism, unrestrained capitalism, and ROI of power now vs power later. No amount of recycling of any quality will fix the world alonge but it is one step of many.
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I wonder if the people who don't like them let their drinks sit for hours
Yes
and chew on the straw till they're soggy
No
What is it about flat warm soda that appeals to you?
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My Air conditioner tells me to conserve energy for the environment, when it gets warm out. Meanwhile the mall behind my house runs the lights and AC 24/7 even when closed
My nest app tells me the same, while there’s a strip mall of 8 stores with neon bright signs that stay on 24/7 directly across from my apt balcony. I’d have a great view of the mountains in the AC but nah the fuckin tanning salon deserves that juice
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What is it about flat warm soda that appeals to you?
It's not that warm flat sodas appeal to me, but rather that carbonated drinks are painful to drink too quickly. If I have a paper straw, it's also going to be accompanied by a meal, which takes time to eat. Also, if I'm getting a more interesting drink like a smoothie, slush, boba, etc, then I usually get something fairly large to enjoy over a long period of time.
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Part of the reason is because the first place I saw posts like this was on right wing spaces. They were often trying to say how climate activists like Greta or Bill Nye or even celebrities that try to push climate action are also using private jets or other modes of transportation to get around.
On the surface it sounds good. But I guarantee you this is a primer.
It's a way to target climate activists and force them to target by bicycle. It's goal is to make any climate action hypocritical.
I guess we’ll have to make our own memes that are similar but convey the proper message about capitalism and institutional responsibility.
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so what's the verdict on hot sauce and yogurt
edit i think i meant that for elsewhere but fuck this, that's a good headline in the image, and fuck this again
Seth Meyers just had one of his podcast eps where Ike Barinholtz talked about getting a sunburn and trying to do a gig the same night and because he looked so rough between sets a waitress at the club suggested he use yogurt to cool down his thighs. He ended up smearing it around with his pants down when some random woman walked into his dressing room thinking it was the bathroom.
Story's toward the end of the clip:
https://player.fm/series/family-trips-with-the-meyers-brothers/family-trips-live-from-amsterdam
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My Air conditioner tells me to conserve energy for the environment, when it gets warm out. Meanwhile the mall behind my house runs the lights and AC 24/7 even when closed
I'm kinda to the point where it feels like nothing us normies do will change anything so until billionaires are illegal it's basically like fuck it.
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I guess we’ll have to make our own memes that are similar but convey the proper message about capitalism and institutional responsibility.
Honestly fuck yea. We are sleeping on how important memes and shit posts are too keeping pressure on and spreading ideas.
Just an example, Mehdi was on Jubilee the other day. The amount of clips is incredible. If I clip one, where do I share it here on Lemmy that would be worth the effort?
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Being ecologically friendly is its own reward.
If your neighbor's house and lawn is cluttered with garbage and rotting food, do you also let your house gather the same?
Or do you wish they did a better job and kept your house clean all the same?
What if you had 95 neighbors all full of garbage and rotted food? Is there any number that would make you do the same?
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I'm kinda to the point where it feels like nothing us normies do will change anything so until billionaires are illegal it's basically like fuck it.
Eating one billionaire would do more for the environment than all the conservation and recycling we do
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My nest app tells me the same, while there’s a strip mall of 8 stores with neon bright signs that stay on 24/7 directly across from my apt balcony. I’d have a great view of the mountains in the AC but nah the fuckin tanning salon deserves that juice
A while ago, when the energy crisis was in full swing, I emailed a corporation that owns a large office building in town, that's completely covered with a light display (basically tower-scale christmas lights) that they should please turn off that energy waster.
Their response was like "Our lighting is eco-friendly, because once a month we turn it green to show our commitment to green energy, and that offsets all the energy consumption."
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Being ecologically friendly is its own reward.
If your neighbor's house and lawn is cluttered with garbage and rotting food, do you also let your house gather the same?
Or do you wish they did a better job and kept your house clean all the same?
What if you had 95 neighbors all full of garbage and rotted food? Is there any number that would make you do the same?
Not quite a compare - you can move house, you can't move planet. It's not that I would stop looking after my own garden if my neighbours weren't looking after theirs. It just feels pointless. Using your analogy, if all surrounding neighbours had rotten rubbish in their garden, no matter what you would do, it would still stink in your garden.
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This is exactly why I don't beat myself up over any of this shit... I will do what I can within my own power, but I don't go out of my way to stop using plastic forks or anything like that. It's pointless.
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except it reads as if its all useless and dumb. I don't understand how people don't see this as that?
It's not created to get people to be more on board with climate change policy. It's meant to point out that we just shouldn't do any of it.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Yeah, no amount of propaganda is going to get me to stop understanding math. Nothing I do as an individual will ever be even a molecule in a drop in a bucket.
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Benefits of trying to go zero plastic is: you can eat healthier. No highly processed food, sodas and all this industrial shit. It's mostly fresh fruits, veggies, cereals, and once in a while, a bit of meat straight from the butcher or local market.
And ok, you can't be sure it wasn't wrapped in plastic until it arrived in your kitchen, but at least, you have less garbage to throw out. -
Not quite a compare - you can move house, you can't move planet. It's not that I would stop looking after my own garden if my neighbours weren't looking after theirs. It just feels pointless. Using your analogy, if all surrounding neighbours had rotten rubbish in their garden, no matter what you would do, it would still stink in your garden.
I hear this argument over and over again:
"Why should I bother recycling? China is poisoning the planet."
It's like reverse-whataboutism.
I find it really lazy and a pointless attitude.
The argument generalizes to:
"Why do anything good when bad exists in the world?"Cleanliness is its own reward.
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Yeah, no amount of propaganda is going to get me to stop understanding math. Nothing I do as an individual will ever be even a molecule in a drop in a bucket.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I fucking can't with this fucking shit.
Like why the fuck do I need to explain to you how everyone doing something makes the impact. Nobody is expecting you to do it alone. Like why do you place that burden to explain something like that on others. An absolute tragedy you have a brain that produces a thought like this. I'm just fucking embarrassed for your parents honestly. -
IIRC plastic recycling is basically bullshit (except maybe PET bottles?) but aluminum is actually effective. Makes you wonder why we don't use more aluminum packaging in general.
Even the aluminum containers are coated with plastic (soda cans, for example)
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I appreciate your recycling efforts. I'm in Chicago where recycling rates are horrible. I'm building a plan to improve recycling rates for next year, but I still have a lot of work to do in terms of the system regarding transparency and user-friendliness.
Are you in a position with the power to implement this?
