Reduce first, then recycle, yes!
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homes@piefed.world 1 day ago
Yes, he’s a wasteful, elitist asshole, but still keep on recycling. Better yet, stop using plastic bottles altogether, and get a reusable bottle which you can refill. The best ones are thermally insulated, so you can put hot or cold drinks with ice in them, so they stay hot or cool for hours, and have drink spouts on them.
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
homes@piefed.world 1 day ago
Reduce, Reuse, and recycle what is left when possible. But avoid, whenever possible, non-reusable containers in the first place.
Widdershins@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I used one for some coffee and a few popsicles and all I got was coffee that tasted awful and had popsicle sticks floating around in it.
homes@piefed.world 1 day ago
I suggest that you try the coffee and the Popsicles separately next time.
Also, not so grateful for Popsicles. Better for beverages, generally speaking.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 hours ago
Just avoid like the plague brands that sponsor World Cups.
I’ve been doing it since the last one in Qatar and am doing it for the current one too.
As it so happens, a happy side effect is often that not consuming products of those brands (which are invariably large brands) means you produce less disposable stuff and/or consume more local products. You even end up saving money because you either stop consuming something that you don’t actually need or you replace it with a store brand, and those are cheaper.
Win-win-win.
homes@piefed.world 19 hours ago
Just avoid like the plague brands that sponsor World Cups.
IronFlask, the brand I recommended, is not a sponsor of the World Cup.
takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
Better yet, stop watching fifa sponsored games and make sure you don’t contribute anything to their revenue.
Although seems like that’s impossible to a large number of people.
homes@piefed.world 20 hours ago
I don’t watch sports.
takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
My apologies I didn’t meant to sound it was about you. I meant overall.
Every time there is world championship there are cries about FIFA corruption, human rights violation and the moment the championship stats all gets quiet everyone seems to be watching it.
nuko147@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Wouldn’t be better if we all stopped recycling and demand the private Jets to be banned with exeptions?
zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Only because of my infant, I was researching proper, reusable bottles. I came across Pura and also ordered one for me. I absolutely love it. Replaceable/interchangable parts, using nothing but stainless steel and medical grade silicone.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
Klean Kanteen’s been another classic stainless option, for decades! kleankanteen.com
gex@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Hank Green did a video inspired by a similar meme after the Blue Origin rocket explosion. He acknowledged that plastic recycling isn’t great, but encouraged focusing on other materials like aluminium. The explosion released 825 tons of carbon dioxide, which is ~1% of the hourly emissions of the aluminum industry. The current amount of recycled cans in the US saves the equivalent to 15 rocket explosions of carbon every day.
So yeah, get a reusable container, and try using aluminum instead of plastic.
youtu.be/pXVmkurTOgM?is=r0lzXo4ugFjDY463
homes@piefed.world 1 day ago
yeah, and there was a recent expose about how, on top of the fact that most plastic recycling doesn’t actually reduce overall pollution all that much, a huge amount of state and municipal recycling programs had been subsumed by some massive scam that just offloaded recycling waste to some 3rd-party program that eventually buried it all in landfills or dumped it somewhere anyway.
the real answer is to stop producing/consuming so much waste (especially petrochemical-based waste) in the first place and to live in more sustainable and less waste-producing systems.
Eq0@literature.cafe 1 day ago
Absolutely. I also want to point out how in some places reducing plastic consumption is so much easier than in others.
Anecdotal: I now live walking distance from a “no plastic” shop that mostly refills your own containers -veggies, dried and liquid stuff… my plastic consumption is most weeks only the milk bottles. I used to live in many other places in which a life like this was hard or outright impossible.
Support local movements to allow you to not use plastic, reuse and refills containers, or get rid of them.
LycanGalen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I 100% agree with your plastic statements. However, wanted to make a note that it is standard practice to put type 1 diabetics on a low dose blood pressure medication because it reduces wear on their kidneys, thereby reducing the risk of renal failure and other complications. Cholesterol meds are also prescribed proactively to people with a variety of chronic illnesses, particularly those related to heart health, who are often eating better than anyone here, but have higher risks of complications. Medications are tools amongst a variety of ways to help people live better lives.
All that to say, what choices you make about medications and their place in your health are completely valid for you. That doesn’t mean your choices are applicable across the board. Please don’t give medical advice on the internet. (A conversation about the importance of communities designed to encourage exercise, and easy access to affordable unprocessed/low processed food is a different thing from “don’t take medications: everything can be cured by kale and a walk in the woods”)
carl_the_grackle@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Heads up: your YouTube link tells shows your channel to everyone who clicks it. This is due to YouTube’s new messaging feature, and how they set the default privacy settings to share your channel with everyone whenever you post a link. You need to remove everything from the ?is= onwards and also turn off the sharing feature if you don’t want everyone on Lemmy getting your profile and the ability to YouTube chat with you
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Thankfully my country has a deposit system for cans and bottles (except for strong alcoholic drinks for some reason. Beer has deposit, wine, vodka etc do not)
Most cans get recycled. There’s even hobos looking in communal garbage bins for recyclable containers because although there’s not a lot of money in it, it gets them what food banks don’t.
I think most of Europe does this but in the rest of the world I’m not sure how much gets recycled or not
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Unfortunately some developing countries have problem with waste segregation and disposal, especially those with cultures where their packaging was then organic (paper bags, banana leaf wrappers, etc. for food) before being replaced by plastic-based packaging, so with little to no convenient places to dispose their trash properly, it ends up almost everywhere.
Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
This is sometimes done on a state by state basis in the US. Execution varies between states too, some states have it so if you sell stuff in bottles and cans you must also be able to accept returns, whereas other states you have to take them to a special facility which no one does except the hobos you were mentioning.