noharleyyet
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#murderplastic
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SAJ-99
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When you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.
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Irrelevant
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That's a hard one, so many things are only available in plastic. Our house is trying to go away from single use plastic. These are pretty cool, but I haven't had them long enough to really judge the durability. https://www.beeswrap.com/
kwyeewyk
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I just found out about these as well from a coworker, she said she's had a few different kinds, and for dry food she's had them last several years, but sounds like if you "pucky" them up and have to wash them they don't last as long. Definitely going to try these.
noharleyyet
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Tikka trigger guard discards...
Irrelevant
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Why stop at the trigger guard, whole stock is cheap plastic.
dcopas78
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Actually, the contaminant in water that scares me the most are pharmaceuticals. I think they have a far greater chance of being detrimental to everyone's health. There is no natural mechanism that will remove hormones, synthetic pharmacological wastes, antibiotics, etc that pass through the human body into the wastewater stream. Microbes have little to no use for the stuff, so they won't consume it as an energy source, and settle out as biosolids for disposal, which is the primary way that biological treatment works. Those that do settle out leave you with a bunch of sludge to landfill. If you take a chance on land application of the sludge, which is a "green" process, you run the risk of accumulating these substances in the soil and causing a whole separate issue....essentially just recirculating the pharma waste back in to the streams through runoff, back through groundwater, back through drinking water, etc, etc.
They can be filtered, which goes back to my comment about expensive treatment earlier. That can mean a several times increasedin treatment costs. It's going to be a long time before people will be willing to pay $200-300 a month water and sewer bills. Probably never.
They can be filtered, which goes back to my comment about expensive treatment earlier. That can mean a several times increasedin treatment costs. It's going to be a long time before people will be willing to pay $200-300 a month water and sewer bills. Probably never.
kwyeewyk
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We're introducing a whole new set of selective pressures to all forms of life on the planet, would be interesting to see what life on this planet looks like in another million or hundred million years.
i always think about the planet Mars when people say "those who don't know are history are doomed to repeat it"
Irrelevant
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Irrelevant
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Wow, really not good.
Microplastics are contaminating fruit and veg
Microplastics are contaminating the fruit and vegetables that we eat, according to new research published in the journal Nature Sustainability. Researchers at the Yanthai Institute in China and Leiden University in the Netherlands, have discovered that microplastics are penetrating the…environmentjournal.online
For the first time, researchers find microplastics deep in the lungs of living people
Tiny plastic debris — some so small you can't see it — has previously been found in human blood, excrement and in the depths of the ocean.
www.npr.org
elkduds
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For the first time, researchers find microplastics deep in the lungs of living people
Tiny plastic debris — some so small you can't see it — has previously been found in human blood, excrement and in the depths of the ocean.
Cheesehead
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God this thread bums me out
Scott85
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I hate humans.
338BearHunter
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Plastic gets a bad rap. Like DDT, it only becomes a problem when overused. We should treat it as a durable products material, not the cheap single-use nonsense. Its one thing to make a chair out of plastic. That might see 10-20 years of use. Quite another to have everything wrapped in plastic. That, I suspect, is where the bulk of junk plastic comes from.
Plastic has saved countless lives through medical equipment, sterile products, safe water pipes, etc. It is not as cut-and-dry as environmentalists would have you believe. Still, it would be nice to see some of the older methods return. Remember the styrofoam egg cartons and McDonald's packages from the 70s? We were able to do away with those and the world didn't miss them.
And I'll start a flame here - I prefer synthetic rifle stocks!
Plastic has saved countless lives through medical equipment, sterile products, safe water pipes, etc. It is not as cut-and-dry as environmentalists would have you believe. Still, it would be nice to see some of the older methods return. Remember the styrofoam egg cartons and McDonald's packages from the 70s? We were able to do away with those and the world didn't miss them.
And I'll start a flame here - I prefer synthetic rifle stocks!
elkduds
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Over what?
338BearHunter
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Over wood.
LuketheDog
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Remember the "ban all plastic straws, food containers, plastic shopping bags" craze that was raging and fashionable right before Covid hit? Boy, that one sure died a quiet death! I can't remember a time in my life that I've seen more garbage on the ground than right now, masks, plastic food containers, straws, single-use everything, etc. We as a population are proving to be very, very short-sighted.
338BearHunter
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Disposable plastic is fine when warranted for hygienic reasons, but we seem to overdo it a bit because its so cheap. A $3 frozen pizza in a box, with a cardboard base, plastic wrap and a paper label seems over-the-top. Individually plastic wrapped fruit is another one.
I am a fan of the plastic shopping bags though, because they usually see several uses. Many of us reuse them after bring the groceries home. And don't get me started on those worthless face placebos!
I am a fan of the plastic shopping bags though, because they usually see several uses. Many of us reuse them after bring the groceries home. And don't get me started on those worthless face placebos!
Sasquatchewan
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I didn't plan on drinking tonight, but I'm hella depressed now...
