Posted on 08/22/2019 5:13:41 AM PDT by Kaslin
This behavior is also evident in people who are mentally ill. I saw it up close and personal with a family member. It was heartbreaking but you couldn't reason with him.
It's like he became a democrat...
No matter what consumers are keep on using it unless its production is slashed and a decent alternate is introduced.
Why are they so freaked out with straws when people are peeing and defecating in the streets along with their discarded syringes after shooting up? Any concern or regulation against needles and poop being left as litter?
After having the same problem a couple of days ago, I order a pack of 100 straws, individually wrapped. I intend to have a couple in my purse and in the car at all times.
I’m 71 when we were to young to work, we took the wagon around the neighborhood’s and collected soda bottles, we got 5 cents for every one we turned in at the grocery store. It’s how we funded candy and 45’s or a comic book.
Today bottles and plastic bags are recycled several times before they get to you. Which weakens the product. Solve the problem get a good water filter, and fill your own bottles, then grab and go. Want it flavored buy some water flavoring. Comes as sugar free too. Or make your own Tea and flavor it the way you want, refill the bottles over and over again. Or get a good permanent cup. I have a stainless steel coffee mug I fill before I go out the door in the morning.
But the problem isn’t the plastic.......He’s right. Its the Ganges, the Mekong and who knows what shithole countries that throw the crap away.
Having lived in Michigan I have to agree. I noticed significantly less litter in the parks than I do living in a state that has no deposit.
If nothing else its an incentive for winos to come and pick them up.
Dad was the chief ranger at one of the Metro Parks in S.E. Michigan. He said starting mid afternoon on weekends, the bottle and can pickers started showing up in his park and by the time they left, they would usually be taking home about a hundred dollars in cans and bottles that were either thrown in the trash cans or left strewn around the picnic areas.........
Paraphrase: Maybe the earth needed plastic and created us to make it.
George Carlin
... It turns out that about 90 percent of all the plastic that reaches the world’s oceans gets flushed through just 10 rivers: The Yangtze, the Indus, Yellow River, Hai River, the Nile, the Ganges, Pearl River, Amur River, the Niger, and the Mekong (in that order).
These rivers have a few key things in common. All of them run through areas where a lot of people live — hundreds of millions of people in some cases. But what’s more important is that these areas don’t have adequate waste collection or recycling infrastructure. There is also little public awareness that plastic trash is a problem at all, so a lot of garbage, gets thrown into the river and conveniently disappears downstream...
https://www.dw.com/en/almost-all-plastic-in-the-ocean-comes-from-just-10-rivers/a-41581484
San Francisco Airport banned plastic water bottles, but San Francisco still have people pooping on the sidewalks...Great move...
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