That’s a typo, it should read: “No. More plastic!”
Plasticccc
Submitted 3 days ago by FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone to [deleted]
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ChillPill@lemmy.world 3 days ago
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I shouldn’t have this ALA logo here either
beliquititious@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
I don’t understand why some books are wrapped in plastic at all. Like is it to protect the cover? Prevent people from reading it at the book store? Some weird contract with a vendor that requires a percentage of books be wrapped? A quirk of the shop that printed the book?
It makes zero sense.
theneverfox@pawb.social 3 days ago
Probably so they can be stored carelessly in dirty warehouses that may or may not control for humidity
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Used to work in a warehouse that did exactly this, can confirm drove a forklift loading pallets of books on trucks and “humidity control” meant closing the bay doors that didn’t have trailers backed in so the snow wouldn’t blow inside.
Venator@lemmy.nz 1 day ago
Probably also in case the shipping container leaks or has some termites or something?
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Warehouses are dirty.
beliquititious@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Aren’t books shipped in boxes though? I guess maybe a printer might palletize the books and find it cheaper to not wrap the whole pallet?
It still seems like the individual book is the wrong place to focus on protecting it from damage it might incur in transit.
Chev@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Both is correct. But the second one is less about reading and more about making a crease. People who buy new books, want to be the first ones to read it. If they wouldn’t care, they would just go to the library.
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Agreed.
DrSleepless@lemmy.world 3 days ago
He’s right about sleepwalking into oblivion
rmuk@feddit.uk 1 day ago
HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Oh I see, they mistaken thought the title was “No, MORE Plastic!”
Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 1 day ago
They’re saying Boo-urns!
db2@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Plot twist: it was corn starch based.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 3 days ago
that’s still bad though. it requires petroleum based processes to grow the corn and then convert the starch into a plastic like substance when the book could have just not been shrink wrapped. i get that you’re joking, and i’m being pedantic, but not enough people realize bioplastics are not the solution, they’re a gap measure, like EVs, and i’m usingeyour comment as a soapbox
HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Bioplastics also cause contaminated petroplastic recycling batches, are difficult to compost (my city, like many cities, does not have the facility), and release methane when breaking down in a landfill.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I guess they could have been wrapped in bulk, but I wouldn’t say you can ship books around without any protection.
It could have been an e book though
mlg@lemmy.world 3 days ago
What about cellophane?
henfredemars@infosec.pub 3 days ago
Plasticccc
Aye, but it’s based on a real treasure chest!
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
How did he pick out the publisher… Just whoever was offering the best deal?
umbraroze@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The way publishing industry has been for a very long time, authors (especially first time ones) don’t get to pick whoever pays the best deal. Just whoever pays the first.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
The author doesn’t get to pick who can print his book? Or do you mean he has no real choice because he’s got bills to pay?
Empricorn@feddit.nl 2 days ago
No. He’s that one unique author who looked for the worst deal for his work.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Or terms he finds acceptable
bluewing@lemm.ee 2 days ago
No. More. Plasticccc? Whelp, there goes my new hip and wheel chair and pain here I come!
Dragonstaff@leminal.space 2 days ago
I dunno, friend. Maybe the title doesn’t contain the entire contents of the book.
bluewing@lemm.ee 1 day ago
The title most certainly doesn’t contain the whole book. But it does contain the whole belief of the author.
kogasa@programming.dev 1 day ago
Somehow I doubt hips and wheelchairs are among the top offenders
bluewing@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Well, stop and think about all those plastic medical devices that get used. Everything from syringes to hips, to air tubing, to the packaging of sterilized surgical instruments. That’s a metric carp tonne of plastics. There are a LOT of life threat level safety devices that use plastics also.
We probably don’t need to bottle soda pop or water in plastic bottles, but the use of plastics will never go away.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Transparent paper just does have the same luminosity
spongeborgcubepants@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It was a typo, he meant: No, more plastic!
Astronauticaldb@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Lionel Hutz, Esq
Free consolation? No, money down!
jaybone@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Better get rid of this bar association sticker too.