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Anyone who genuinely thinks Socialism or communism is a solution to the Consumerist Problem Capitalism has, and our systems have, needs to go look at how much China Consumes.
I showed this to my 4 yr old - I wish you guys had videos more targeted towards a young audience. He has become obsessed with toys and every time we go to a toy store and get one of those magazines advertising toys then he just wants to sit there looking at all the ones he could buy and circling them. I want to help him understand marketing and how the system is setup to make him desire more and more and more. And how poorly the toys are built and how much damage they do to Mother Earth. He cares deeply for animals and Mother Earth. It’s just hard for him to understand how some of his toys could hurt her so badly and some not. Toys usually purchased by friends or grandparents. I would like him to understand the system from his perspective. And also to share toys, like wooden toys, that are less damaging. Oh Playmobil’s Wiltopia line. Or also the idea of sharing toys with friends (less realistic in our post COVID world).
Us humans as a society have a problem in the sense that through industrialization we have achieved prosperity, jobs and a lot of benefits we have that would not be there without energy. Thus relatively cheap, clean as possible, and safe as possible energy is needed to sustain us humans. Unfortunately these processes create a lot of other problematic issues such as waste, environmental impacts and probably a myriad of other issues that needed to be addressed. These problems should be addressed openly with ALL residents and solutions should be found that would keep the negative impacts as much as possible. The trade off should be well published and ALL residents should carry apart of the burden or come to a collective decision as to what can be better for future generations as we all are dependent on the planet and its resources for our survival as well as the other denizens who are an intricate part of the whole system. It seems to be a very difficult exercise but vested interests see to it that only a portion is made public and there are usually a lot of mis and dis information bandied about as well as outright lies to benefit some at the expense of others. Couching these problems in political buzz words is not conducive to solutions but is rather divisive and leads to confrontation and not really any progress in problem solving.
What the Hello Kitty do they have against Catholics? I am not Catholic, and never will be - but I have good friends who are Catholic, and though I've had issues with Catholicism and individual Catholics I don't believe in picking on them just for being Catholic.
I had absolutely no knowledge of this practice, and this Video just popped up in my feed at random. I believe random is never just Random. I have been coughing my ass off in sporadic fits, for around 2 years now. I have had all of the tests< ALL, and no explanation for it, not even family history. I also happen to live in Long Beach. Thank you so much for this post, one can't create action about anything if one doesn't even have the awareness of it.
Instead of taking responsibility for our plastic waste, we demand that corporations change what they offer. And then we get mad when they don't have the perfect thing. No, just feel your guilt, cry about the reasons you chose to do what you did, release the pain, and take responsibility for your actions
The standard test for compostability is ASTM D6400 which companies need to receive certification from the BPI (Biodegradable Products Institute) for in order to label their products as compostable. Further, you mention they don't biodegrade in the real world like organic matter... well, no. They're tested to biodegrade in a commercial composting facility, so ensuring there is sufficient infrastructure to collect, transport and accept them commercially is crucial to successful end of life of these products. These aren't designed to simply 'replace' single use plastics, but to act as a collection vehicle to get the 30+% of food waste going to landfill out of there and into a composting facility where it will break down and can be used for ag and infrastructure projects, thus reducing it's GHG emission into the environment as methane while extending the useful life of landfills. Reduce, reuse first, yes. But slamming a technology that works in an effort to convince people that 100% of plastics can be converted to reusables is silly. Most problems don't have a black and white answer, and when people treat them like they do, there is often ignorance involved.
It doesn't have to be like that. In my hometown in Switzerland, Basel is a garbage incinerator since the 1930th. It is close to the Border with France on the Westside of town, where the prevailing winds are coming from. It is also burning the garbage in boilers to create very hot water under pressure close to 200C and this is connected to the Central Heating for Basel. Yes in the early days, it was dirty. But now it is absolutely clean, there are scrubbers and filters installed. The material out of the filters is highly toxic and is encased in concrete and deposited in special dumps. It burns now the garbage for close to 5 Million people out of 3 Countries Regional, Switzerland, France and Germany. Most of the inner city of Basel is connected to the central; heating system and is not burning fossil fuels anymore. The Region is densely populated and there would be no room for garbage dumps. This is a clean and efficient solution and it should be copied all around the World.
mannnn i knew my "composting bags" were bogus. they look just like the scrap pieces in the video 👿👿👿 on the other hand, i DO like the look of bioplastics/recycled plastics in things like dinnerware or small furniture. it may not be a bad alternative for items that dont have the longest life span in the first place, just not single-use items. its not working perfect at the moment, but its definitely still got potential, im curious to see how itll all fit together in "closing the loop".
Supermarkets in the UK will not accept food from growers that use municipal compost on their land, even if it is PAS100 standard. Bio plastics are no different to fossil plastics with the exception that they are not from fossil fuels (directly) and they compete for land and food / habitat. Given that bio plastics are largely single use, produce microplasticss and require the same plasticisers then there is no real win here. Abolishing single use items is vital in reducing waste. Deposit return schemes and refills are the solutions required.
