Walmart Virual Signalling ?

I carry a growler full of tap water with ice made from tap water every day in the summer, it's easier than hiking to grab a bottle from the nearest pickup truck with a boiling cooler in the sun, then throw the bottles in the garbage because companies can't be bothered with recycling bins. Most of the single use plastic is perpetuated by laziness.

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Originally Posted by MikePal

The problem is you won't see them doing anything inside the store to eliminate 'single use' plastics because the alternatives will cost them way too much. Not using the plastic bags saves them money.

It's all smoke and mirrors like most of this climate change nonsense.

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One of the biggest contributors to waste are the cardboard boxes that products are shipped to the store in. I’ve seen a lightbulb packed in 3 progressively larger boxes. Gotta be a better way.

The examples of ridiculously over-packaged items is endless. We try to be diligent recyclers at our house too, but it really takes the wind out of my sails to see a 40 yard dumpster at work half-full of cardboard….makes you feel like like your efforts are a drop in the bucket

My 9 year old grandson made an interesting comment regarding the elimination of plastic bags and utensils, and replacing them with paper bags and wooden utensils. He said it would be bad for the environment because more trees will be cut down and milled to serve this purpose. I told him that when I was his age, we were using paper bags, straws, and forks, and switched to plastic thinking it would be better for the environment, but it has just created a new environmental issue. I said that we have gone in a big circle back to where we were fifty years ago.