Good. Can't come soon enough.
They just have to make sure that the replacements won't have an even more negative effect on the environment however.
Good. Can't come soon enough.
They just have to make sure that the replacements won't have an even more negative effect on the environment however.
People dumping trash into rivers because they don't want to pay -> eventually a portion reaches the seas.
Landfill sites not having high enough fences or any at all which means the wind can just blow portions of it anywhere.
Certain birds are attracted by shiny things and plastic always reflects into the sun and then they eventually drop it wherever.
Industrial leakages since there aren't really solid laws against it yet.
Micro plastics that we flush through (those micro things in scrub lotions etc).
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Correct. Most EU states do handle a majority of their own recycling, I know Belgium, the Netherlands does so as they've invested a lot into recycling, whereas the UK, France and Germany have been lazy and they'll be the ones that will have short term problems, although recycling plants aren't very expensive to build and they don't take much time to get built either.
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There's already recycled paper/carton straws for a while now, that will become the standard most likely.
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Things naturally become more expensive because that's how life works.
Recycling did not make products that much more expensive in my country, it was estimated at a 0.1% rise back then.
Not to mention the cost of fixing something that's already escalated is a lot higher than the minimal cost increase that you have to pay to introduce recycling. Up to date, the EU air and water quality has improved by 40% since 2010.
Last edited by mmoc925aeb179c; 2018-05-28 at 09:01 AM.
considering how often here people use the argument of "well your not so why should I", it probly occurs to most people that before trying to get other parts of the world to not use such destructive practices that we should move from them ourselves
rather than just raising our hands in the air and going "oh well"
They've always had these good ideas. What they didn't have is a proper PR department. I think Brexit has caused them to rethink their position on active transparency (as in going out and telling people you're awesome) instead of passive transparency (as in waiting humbly until someone notices you're awesome by digging shit up on your horribly complicated website).
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Leading by example is a thing. We cannot tell others how to run their businesses, but we can change things here and hope other people catch up. And it'll reduce local contamination of the Baltic, the Northern and the Mediterranean Sea. The list they compiled is derived from the top 10 things that get washed up on shore in Europe, so it's not totally made up stuff.
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It's a good idea but I'd rather we also handled glass waste.
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Most things are being changed to the stronger paper versions already.
A few Mcdonalds here are already on that gravy train with their straws in the UK being paper based. Probably more but their containers have been paper for a while now if not years.
Still long time coming. Better late than never.
Now we just need the reset of the world, to do the same...
The EU isnt the largest "contributor" of plastic waste in the Ocean, but the UN says they are lesser developed countries, so they always get a free-be.
Ps. I know some people will reply with a "but the west, raped those countries of natural resources" ...
Virtually none. Burgers used to be wrapped in paper and not drinking out of a straw is what we do most of the time anyway. The plastic cap is for using it while you move I am guessing so most people do not need it. It is optional for the customer to get here in Canada along with straws and I don't think I have ever gotten either.
Most plastic use is really, really non essential and very easily gotten rid of.
I've never understood why people use straws in places like McDonald's anyway. I always just take the lid of the cup and drink like I would from a pint glass. No straw required.
Hell they could actually replace the plastic/paper cups with pint glasses, it would probably be cheaper to clean the glasses than keep buying disposable cups anyway.
I will admit, it is probably the only place I would use a straw, other times I won't really bother with one. Even then I don't dine out on Mcdonalds specifically so in the long run, I don't use straws and if I don't get one, I do drink from the cup. I think the problem is, drinking from the cup is socially abnormal so it's not done often.
I mean I guess they stick to paper based and disposable because they are family friendly... You don't give a child of 5 a pint glass let alone a glass at all - if you believe they're fine then I would potentially cite you may not be as experienced as someone myself who has children. And I will explain that children up to a certain age have no concept of danger or understand action and reaction, it goes pretty high and why 13 is like the age of consent/permission and crap. If you know what I mean great, but yeah, there's a reason why there is standardised age brands.
You can use plastics but then you're not resolving the issue, just prolonging it because once that plastic is undesirable... It will be bad waste again.
Last edited by Evangeliste; 2018-05-28 at 11:16 AM.
Exactly right.
I do actually think that reducing plastic waste is a very good thing, but the fact that we went to it in the first place out of concern for the rain forests, when the rain forests weren't being cut down to make these things in the first place, just makes the whole thing look silly.