Costco changed the bag to plastic!!
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They should use it as filler for potholes. Fibers would composite into stronger flexible quieter roads....or sobI dare to guess.
I would think that could work from a structural point of view, but they would have to seal it somehow to prevent more microplastics from being created. Plastics aren't often used as a building material because of toxic off-gassing, but of course this would be outside which would mitigate the issue.
Asphalt is one of the most recyclable materials in existence, when they tear up an asphalt road they just melt it down and pour it back on. If there was plastic involved it would probably interrupt this process.
But I'm not expert. Maybe it would work.
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I would think that could work from a structural point of view, but they would have to seal it somehow to prevent more microplastics from being created. Plastics aren't often used as a building material because of toxic off-gassing, but of course this would be outside which would mitigate the issue.
Asphalt is one of the most recyclable materials in existence, when they tear up an asphalt road they just melt it down and pour it back on. If there was plastic involved it would probably interrupt this process.
But I'm not expert. Maybe it would work.
Literally asphalt is junk plastic/petroleum. It dissolves or mixes with plastic at melting temp. Or even if there was no thermal action, the plastic in fiber form would just get incorporated into the melt.
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Trash Panda isn’t an article, they’re a disc golf manufacturer that solely uses recycled plastic. They’ve tested with recycling the exact same plastic more than ten times. And I have no clue what you are talking about with scotch tape, it’s literally designed to be tearable, just like the Costco bag in the picture….
Okay, so this one frisbee company disputes the countless articles published with sources about how plastic degrades when it's recycled and... you expect me to just go with that instead of NPR articles.
I doubt the demand for frisbees is high enough to be an encompassing solution for our plastic problem, but I like the idea.
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You still can recycle plastic, therefore point made by the OP is false.
technically true. but some plastic products cost too much to recycle so they go into landfill.
also some recycled plastics can't be recycled again because it's "impossible" to know what percentages of what other plastics were used in the final product. again, too costly to recycle.
these are all primary examples of why using plastic as a packaging product are based entirely on marketing and manufacturing cost over environmental impacts.
truth of the matter is, natural fibers like cotton and wood pulp(paper) plus biodegradable sealants like wax, vegetable oil, shellacs, etc are far better for the environment than any amount of "recyclable" plastic.
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Literally asphalt is junk plastic/petroleum. It dissolves or mixes with plastic at melting temp. Or even if there was no thermal action, the plastic in fiber form would just get incorporated into the melt.
although there are ongoing experiments for this, results aren't promising.
standard road asphalt contains recycled tires for their elasticity and longevity. there have been cases where plastics have been used in the formation of walking/bike paths, but recent investigations have discovered an inordinate amount of microplastics have found their way into watersheds in the vicinity of these paths.
sometimes a bad product is a bad product. due to the hubris of oil companies they continue to market and sell these products as "recyclable" when in reality the process of recycling them is a costly and complicated solution that has been proven within the confines of a lab test.
it took the US 70 years to identify and stop using lead based paints in home construction. it was replaced with...you guessed it, oil based paints that contain plastics. we're currently running up to 60 years on that. I wonder what the next big thing will be?
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I can agree that Monsanto can fuck all the way off.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Monsanto is dead, Bayer is the devil incarnate.
edit: just to educate a bit further. the same German company that manufactured the pills used in the infamous concentration camp showers.
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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.
This is not a shitpost.
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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.
most of the recent changes to costco lately is the current ceo, hes been trying to make it behave like other large chains as of recently.
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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.
Their paper towels from Kirkland feel cheaper. I think they may be enshittifying themselves.
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Or, they’re finally being realistic about the bag’s recyclability…
Yeah weren't the old ones lined with plastic anyway? I would think it would need to be to keep them from going stale
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This is not a shitpost.
While I don't agree, your post is shittier than OPs
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although there are ongoing experiments for this, results aren't promising.
standard road asphalt contains recycled tires for their elasticity and longevity. there have been cases where plastics have been used in the formation of walking/bike paths, but recent investigations have discovered an inordinate amount of microplastics have found their way into watersheds in the vicinity of these paths.
sometimes a bad product is a bad product. due to the hubris of oil companies they continue to market and sell these products as "recyclable" when in reality the process of recycling them is a costly and complicated solution that has been proven within the confines of a lab test.
it took the US 70 years to identify and stop using lead based paints in home construction. it was replaced with...you guessed it, oil based paints that contain plastics. we're currently running up to 60 years on that. I wonder what the next big thing will be?
You should check out asphalt. When it rains you can see a slick of oil coming off of it. Its literally tar.
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You should check out asphalt. When it rains you can see a slick of oil coming off of it. Its literally tar.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]https://www.asphaltmagazine.com/understanding-how-tires-are-used-in-asphalt/
it's all petroleum based. my point is that oils aren't left behind in our bodies, solid plastics are.
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https://www.asphaltmagazine.com/understanding-how-tires-are-used-in-asphalt/
it's all petroleum based. my point is that oils aren't left behind in our bodies, solid plastics are.
Incorrect. Petroleum is totally worse. While people have so far found plastics in our testicles, eyes and brains, petroleum contains benzene, toluene, and xylene which are readily absorbed by the body and are known carcinogens and liver killers...fatty liver? Diabetes? Cirrhosis? Cancer, sterilization, immunosuppression.
Plastics release plasticizers like BPA which are carcinogenic but ever so much more slowly than if you just drank water that sipped from a road next door.... Or your roof, we're so stupid, the most popular place to use tar is our roofs....
Anyway, petroleum is immediately toxic and terrible for the environment. The water from roads is called runoff. That masks the fact that it contains all roof and road petroleum toxin residue from every roof and road...yey fish!
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You still can recycle plastic, therefore point made by the OP is false.
Please take not of the symbol on the bag in that image. It indicates that the plastic bag is not recyclable. Not all plastics are recyclable, and also I banged your dad, you can call me Dad2 if you like.
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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't recycle paper tainted with food oils. Or if it's lined with plastic/wax. It gets sorted and dumped into the landfill. You can't compost it either. Neither options are good unless it's pure paper bag with no mixes plastic.
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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.
Similarly, the packaging change they made to the rotisserie chicken means me never eating that heated plastic bag garbage ever again.
It was plastic before but it was at least a tray and a covering. So the plastic at least seemed more durable and not all of it was touching the bird. Now it's just a shitty plastic bag being warmed under a light. Disgusting.
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You can't recycle paper tainted with food oils. Or if it's lined with plastic/wax. It gets sorted and dumped into the landfill. You can't compost it either. Neither options are good unless it's pure paper bag with no mixes plastic.
This right here. You couldn’t recycle this anyway. The list of what you can’t recycle is about 4 miles longer than what you can.
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You can't recycle paper tainted with food oils. Or if it's lined with plastic/wax. It gets sorted and dumped into the landfill. You can't compost it either. Neither options are good unless it's pure paper bag with no mixes plastic.
Yeah, they should have gone to a rice or dextrin or CMC coated bag. Stuff that just dissolves in water.
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Similarly, the packaging change they made to the rotisserie chicken means me never eating that heated plastic bag garbage ever again.
It was plastic before but it was at least a tray and a covering. So the plastic at least seemed more durable and not all of it was touching the bird. Now it's just a shitty plastic bag being warmed under a light. Disgusting.
They did also cut the chicken with the same knife they cut several million chicken before the one you picked today! Yey!
