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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • In the US I’ll say littering. Some areas have available trash receptacles well-placed, but that’s few and far between, and some of those places don’t have good systems in place to collect that trash.

    But even with that, I get pretty bent out of shape at the amount of littering in nature areas. Families tend to be the worst at this for some reason. Into the mountains to do some sledding, well see someone has left broken, busted plastic sleds and foodstuffs behind. A river? Sandals, swimsuits, broken chairs, foodstuffs. The Forrest for camping? Busted equipmemt, sleeping bags, foodstuffs.

    Now, it less common in that not everyone is doing it, but more common in that I usually see at least one example of this at every nature site I go to.








  • The issue is you made a very extreme statement “We need to stop all plastic production” without actually knowing or understanding A) what plastics make up of the items we use in ALL sectors of our daily lives and B) how catastrophic it would be to stop all plastic production. Just like the knee-jerk reaction that caused plastic straws to be banned and replaced by paper straws in certain areas, and then we find out paper straws actually harm the environment more.

    Like, your hot take sounds all good and noble like most virtue signaling statements do, but they also all don’t consider any of the realities or ramifications, just like yours.

    Also, your fixable solution isn’t a solution at all. There’s many life-saving plastics that cant be made from reusable or compositabke plastics.