Posted on 05/06/2026 3:07:23 AM PDT by fruser1
A sweeping new bill in New York would force major retailers and manufacturers to cut down on plastic packaging used for everyday staples including toilet paper, paper towels and diapers.
The rules would apply to large companies with sales above $5 million that sell or distribute covered products in New York, hitting giants including Walmart, Target and Kroger.
Under the proposal, manufacturers would have to reduce non-reusable or non-environmentally friendly packaging by 10 percent within three years and by 30 percent within 12 years.
The bill also sets long-term targets for packaging to become reusable, refillable or recyclable, with deadlines stretching as far as 2055.
Dan Felton, president and CEO of the Flexible Packaging Association, warned that the bill could remove the plastic film that keeps basic goods dry and sanitary
Meanwhile, California has one of the most aggressive laws set in place for excess plastic. In 2022, the senate passed a bill aiming to eliminate 25 percent of single-use plastic by 2032.
Some brands have even capitalized on the eco-friendly toilet paper trend, like Who Gives a Crap, made with 100 percent recycled toilet paper. Seek Bamboo sells organic toilet paper made of FSC-certified bamboo, while PlantPaper sells a similar product made without 'harsh chemicals' like bleach.
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Leftists are degenerate control freaks. Their influence on society must be minimized or eliminated.
Members of a certain unnamed religion don’t use toilet paper.
They’re ignoring the huge amount of waste involved in appliances that can’t be repaired and break after only a few years.
Gone are durable, easy to repair items.
Built in obsolescence.
“Leftists are degenerate control freaks. Their influence on society must be minimized or eliminated.”
In principle, yes, but I have NO PROBLEM if my useless RINO Senator is replaced by a Democrat who uses his power in DC to DESTROY our country for me and my children. Why? Because I’m mad at my RINO because he said something mean about Trump.
Sound about right, Purists?
(not directed at you, Rocco)
Eco nazis consider human beings a hindrance.
Except themselves, of course.
Can’t they be replaced with a Maga instead of apologizing for a Dem lite?
Just stop shipping your products into these states.
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JJ in NC, US, 5m ago
New Yorkers could save money and cut down on plastics by switching to the New York Times.
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Barbarella Jones, Somalia, 21m ago
The satanic Democrats will find a way to tax you.
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Dr120acd-, US, 36m ago
That’s in New York? Oh. Why not just ban people from going to the bathroom?
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Make them zip tied bags sorta like bread = reusable.
These econazis are insane.
The other leftist solution is to just kill more people. See the twentieth century for reference.
“recycled toilet paper...”?
Government -- the biggest producer of waste on this planet.
Enviro save-the-planet laws keep the waste overflowing.
left = waste = theft
Many are determined to keep it that way because they have their hands in the pie.
Daily Tale...
“Can’t they be replaced with a Maga instead of apologizing for a Dem lite?”
Just happened in Indiana, also we took out Cyclops (EyePatch McCain) here in Texas - a total a-hole regarding MAGA, earlier this year, and we may take out Cornyn this month - but it is all being done in the Primaries.
It’s the people here (trolls or not, doesn’t make a difference to me), who sit on their butts rather than vote in November, knowing FULL WELL that they’re enabling Democrats.
The eco nazis consider your hiney a hindrance.>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Get an electric toilet seat that has a water rinse. You need hardly any toilet paper at all.They are available at Walmart.
https://www.walmart.com/c/kp/electric-toilet-seat
Its a vast conspiracy involving the Muslim Brotherhood. They want to convert America to using left hands and fingers with a water can dip to clean your hiney.
Alahwahoo Assbar !
Disposable diapers have thus far been immune to the Carbon Cult of the Apocalypse.
Why not just outlaw them altogether?
Are NYers going to have to save it in buckets after use and set it out in recycling bins to be collected?
What could possibly go wrong?
Or does the plumbers' union want to legislate forcing the addition of a separate plumbing system in every building just for used TP?
Of course the practical solution is everybody get a bidet and use them.
Not defending this, but if you go back far enough the packaging was paper.
Which I am now starting to see again, here in Canada.
Maybe they don’t want us wiped out after all.
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