Costco changed the bag to plastic!!

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• bran_buckler@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Or, they’re finally being realistic about the bag’s recyclability…

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  • Poach@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah weren’t the old ones lined with plastic anyway? I would think it would need to be to keep them from going stale

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• Bgugi@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is not a shitpost.

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  • BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    While I don’t agree, your post is shittier than OPs

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• baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I buy the big thing of cashews from there; recently, they went from the infinitely-reusable and recyclable hard plastic square with screw-on top to a plastic bag like this. The label says “uses 40% less plastic” or some shit. Costco is a good company, but holy shit so much single-use plastic.

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  • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The cubes, for 9/10 people, is single use plastic. That was actually a good change.

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    • deur@feddit.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This is also consistent with Reduce reuse recycle

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  • BillibusMaximus@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    About the time they got rid of the hard plastic cashew jars and switched to the bags, they also started selling a (more expensive) glass jar of cashews.

    So for me, it does cut down on the plastic, since now I just refill the glass jar with the bagged cashews, rather than needing to buy (and dispose of) the plastic jar every time.

    I might feel differently if I was actually reusing the plastic jars for something but I really wasn’t (not after the first few, anyway).

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    • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Now if they would introduce a deposit on those jars and refill them…

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    • altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I totally re-use glass jars! It’s a nice cleanable container.

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  • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How many of those cubes is it reasonable for someone to have?

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    • baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If that threshold is less than 10, I’m unreasonable

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    • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If you are building something out of it like a raft, any number is fine.

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    most of the recent changes to costco lately is the current ceo, hes been trying to make it behave like other large chains as of recently.

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• mrodri89@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Their paper towels from Kirkland feel cheaper. I think they may be enshittifying themselves.

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• usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Was the bag actually paper before, or paper lined with plastic?

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  • vonbaronhans@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It was lined with plastic.

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    • altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It was paper lined with plastic.

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• bulwark@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Might be my imagination but I think Kirkland stuff has been declining in quality lately. The paper towels seem worse now, but I’m not sure how.

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• WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Cost, probably.

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• BeBopaLula@piefed.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Umm, I personally would be more worried about the bioengineered stuff myself.

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  • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Look into it. Bioengineering is not scary, it’s just a word the some media outlets fear monger

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    • altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Exactly. If your body can eat it, its done. Its just carbon.

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  • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Why? Tweaking the genes of something doesnt magically make it dangerous

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It depends what they’re tweaking and why. For example, a lot of stuff is tweaked to become “Roundup ready,” and facilitating the mass use of glyphosate is dangerous.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We’ve been manipulating the genes of plants since 1716 when Thomas Fairchild first grafted two different things together to make the first hybrid plant. If you like modern corn, you can thank bioengineering.

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    • BeBopaLula@piefed.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I dunno, I see stuff about there is not even original corn and other items left anywhere except for seed banks.
      Also don’t like bioengineered means they own it. Corps don’t share.

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• FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You can recycle plastic.

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  • ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No. This is a myth perpetuated by huge companies who create a lot of single use plastic.

    There isn’t a type of plastic in existence that can be recycled without degrading in quality. A plastic bottle cannot be used to create a new bottle. This is why less than 5% of plastic waste is actually recycled.

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    • tyler@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s just categorically false. Trash Panda Disc Golf does a video on just that myth. The problem with recycling has nothing to do with degradation. It has to do with economics. New plastic is cheap. Reusing plastic isn’t.

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    • FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      without degrading in quality.

      I didn’t say it can. You can still recycle it, just not into the same product.

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  • three@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Highly dependent on where you live and what the capabilities of the recycling facility are.

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    • FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      True.

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• FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You still can recycle plastic, therefore point made by the OP is false.

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You’re right: plastic is just as recyclable now as it was before.

    Which is to say, it continues to largely fail to be recyclable.

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    • nroth@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I think this was a joke

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  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    technically true. but some plastic products cost too much to recycle so they go into landfill.

    also some recycled plastics can’t be recycled again because it’s “impossible” to know what percentages of what other plastics were used in the final product. again, too costly to recycle.

    these are all primary examples of why using plastic as a packaging product are based entirely on marketing and manufacturing cost over environmental impacts.

    truth of the matter is, natural fibers like cotton and wood pulp(paper) plus biodegradable sealants like wax, vegetable oil, shellacs, etc are far better for the environment than any amount of “recyclable” plastic.

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