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While unpacking the shopping today, I saw how much plastic was used to cover everthing up. Potatoes kept in plastic. Oranges in some form of plastic netting, you get the picture. Loads of things that don't need all that packaging get it anyway. What would be nice to see is things like Tupperware
being brought in to hold your foodstuffs in, without having to waste so much plastic and things when it could be used on things that really matter (I'm not going to elaborate on that one.).
Incentives could be used, like if you buy the specially labelled containers, you could get discounts on that item(s) for the next three weeks, and you could buy stickers to stick onto them so as that you still get the discount long after the original one has expired (this bit isn't at all original - I found these while I was on holiday in Florida, in a few of the theme parks, you could buy these jugs that you could refill for the rest of the day, and if you came back, you could just get a new sticker, so you don't have to dish out $9.00 for another mug/ jug thing).
This would lower the need for all that packaging, at least.
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I think I may be misunderstanding part of this. Wouldn't people just buy lots of the containers that gave discounts? |
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Big plus on the incentives. |
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haven't they done this with glass jam jars for a couple of hundred years? [froglet] can you articulate what makes this 'idea' an idea ? |
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The idea is to take your own containers, when going shopping. For doing that you get a discount, as I understand it. |
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There's a dumbass promotion here, that sees the public buying reusable shopping bags, so they don't use plastic bags. They're marketed under big signs that say "SAY NO TO PLASTIC BAGS", in the supermarkets. Of course, the supermarket chains aren't saying no to plastic bags... they still have millions of the buggers cluttering up their stores, giving them away free to the public, with their shopping. |
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Having bought dozens of "courtesy cups" over the years, some pushing up toward the 126 fl. oz. extreme ... to get the 25¢ limitless refill ... I can attest that these type containers do serve a purpose. Yes, I also own several "ecobags". Those nice canvas totes cut down on the number of paper/plastic bags, but sadly offer no discount here. I'm wholly with you on any attempt to reduce packaging, especially when I pass through the grocers and am handed a 2 liter bottle in one plastic sack and a loaf of bread in a second sack. A very intriguing counter-idea here is ... why do I pay extra to display sponsored gear? I should at very least be offered a 10% discount RFID license plate cover that advertised my choice of fuel, or the same discount when wearing the licensed ball-cap I keep filled up with game tokens. |
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Good point, [reensure]. Very good idea also. |
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Especially so, [reensure], if they are an environmentally responsible oil driller, like Chevron, now Texaco. |
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In the time it took to read your anno, [scout], the Ashland oil refinery made enough gas to run your car for a year. |
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having been brought up by an uncontrolably "environmental" mother, I have to heartly +1 your idea... |
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Look up Chevron's record in relation to their operations in Papua New Guinea. They were extraordinarily careful, which was a reaction to the damage done by another mining company at Panguna, on Bougainville, [scout]. |
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I used to work in the office next door to Chevron PNG, here in Brisbane. They were practically enviro-nazis. |
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Interestingly enough, when they sold out they vacated the office, which was then let by Metal Storm, who make machine guns with a theoretical rate of fire of 1 million rounds per minute. Quite a different attitude to the world. |
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//machine guns with a theoretical rate of fire of 1 million rounds per minute.// Now there's a happy thought. |
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UnaB... You sure been more 'round the world than me and I'd thought I'd been everywhere and done, well, almost, everything. Wow. CIA? NSA? Whatever.
In Switzerland, I recall, you just brought your own mesh shopping bag. You filled it up with good stuff and reusesd it on the next trip. Swiss are kewl. |
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