Costco changed the bag to plastic!!
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I buy the big thing of cashews from there; recently, they went from the infinitely-reusable and recyclable hard plastic cube with screw-on top to a plastic bag like this. The label says “uses 40% less plastic” or some shit. Costco is a good company, but holy shit so much single-use plastic.
The cubes, for 9/10 people, is single use plastic. That was actually a good change.
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Umm, I personally would be more worried about the bioengineered stuff myself.
Look into it. Bioengineering is not scary, it's just a word the some media outlets fear monger
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I buy the big thing of cashews from there; recently, they went from the infinitely-reusable and recyclable hard plastic cube with screw-on top to a plastic bag like this. The label says “uses 40% less plastic” or some shit. Costco is a good company, but holy shit so much single-use plastic.
About the time they got rid of the hard plastic cashew jars and switched to the bags, they also started selling a (more expensive) glass jar of cashews.
So for me, it does cut down on the plastic, since now I just refill the glass jar with the bagged cashews, rather than needing to buy (and dispose of) the plastic jar every time.
I might feel differently if I was actually reusing the plastic jars for something but I really wasn't (not after the first few, anyway).
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That's right folks! Costco, for whatever reason changed the tortilla strip chip bag from a perfectly recyclable bag to this piece of shit bag that you can't recycle.
You can recycle plastic.
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Umm, I personally would be more worried about the bioengineered stuff myself.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]We've been manipulating the genes of plants since 1716 when Thomas Fairchild first grafted two different things together to make the first hybrid plant. If you like modern corn, you can thank bioengineering/GMOs.
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You can recycle plastic.
Highly dependent on where you live and what the capabilities of the recycling facility are.
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You can recycle plastic.
No. This is a myth perpetuated by huge companies who create a lot of single use plastic.
There isn't a type of plastic in existence that can be recycled without degrading in quality. A plastic bottle cannot be used to create a new bottle. This is why less than 5% of plastic waste is actually recycled.
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No. This is a myth perpetuated by huge companies who create a lot of single use plastic.
There isn't a type of plastic in existence that can be recycled without degrading in quality. A plastic bottle cannot be used to create a new bottle. This is why less than 5% of plastic waste is actually recycled.
without degrading in quality.
I didn't say it can. You can still recycle it, just not into the same product.
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without degrading in quality.
I didn't say it can. You can still recycle it, just not into the same product.
Into what? Scotch tape? 2 by 4's for decking material? One can only make so much of those things before the low demand is met.
Like I said, almost none of it gets recycled because the resulting products are too weak. Not only that, but plastic "recycling" is one of the primary ways that micro plastics get into our bodies.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/05/yet-another-problem-with-recycling-it-spews-microplastics/
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That's right folks! Costco, for whatever reason changed the tortilla strip chip bag from a perfectly recyclable bag to this piece of shit bag that you can't recycle.
You still can recycle plastic, therefore point made by the OP is false.
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We've been manipulating the genes of plants since 1716 when Thomas Fairchild first grafted two different things together to make the first hybrid plant. If you like modern corn, you can thank bioengineering/GMOs.
I dunno, I see stuff about there is not even original corn and other items left anywhere except for seed banks.
Also don’t like bioengineered means they own it. Corps don’t share. -
I dunno, I see stuff about there is not even original corn and other items left anywhere except for seed banks.
Also don’t like bioengineered means they own it. Corps don’t share.I can agree that Monsanto can fuck all the way off.
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That's right folks! Costco, for whatever reason changed the tortilla strip chip bag from a perfectly recyclable bag to this piece of shit bag that you can't recycle.
Was the bag actually paper before, or paper lined with plastic?
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You still can recycle plastic, therefore point made by the OP is false.
You're right: plastic is just as recyclable now as it was before.
Which is to say, it continues to largely fail to be recyclable.
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Why? Tweaking the genes of something doesnt magically make it dangerous
It depends what they're tweaking and why. For example, a lot of stuff is tweaked to become "Roundup ready," and facilitating the mass use of glyphosate is dangerous.
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About the time they got rid of the hard plastic cashew jars and switched to the bags, they also started selling a (more expensive) glass jar of cashews.
So for me, it does cut down on the plastic, since now I just refill the glass jar with the bagged cashews, rather than needing to buy (and dispose of) the plastic jar every time.
I might feel differently if I was actually reusing the plastic jars for something but I really wasn't (not after the first few, anyway).
Now if they would introduce a deposit on those jars and refill them...
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It depends what they're tweaking and why. For example, a lot of stuff is tweaked to become "Roundup ready," and facilitating the mass use of glyphosate is dangerous.
Sure, but a crop merely being bioengineered does not imply that that specific tweak has been made
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You're right: plastic is just as recyclable now as it was before.
Which is to say, it continues to largely fail to be recyclable.
I think this was a joke
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Was the bag actually paper before, or paper lined with plastic?
It was lined with plastic.
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No. This is a myth perpetuated by huge companies who create a lot of single use plastic.
There isn't a type of plastic in existence that can be recycled without degrading in quality. A plastic bottle cannot be used to create a new bottle. This is why less than 5% of plastic waste is actually recycled.
That’s just categorically false. Trash Panda Disc Golf does a video on just that myth. The problem with recycling has nothing to do with degradation. It has to do with economics. New plastic is cheap. Reusing plastic isn’t.
