• Addfwyn@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    My country is exceptionally bad about this.

    Buy a plastic package of crackers? It will be filled with smaller packages of crackers all wrapped in plastic with a plastic freshener pack for each one. I am not exaggerating. I am not sure I have ever bought something that didn’t have at least two degrees of plastic wrap.

    We did stop giving plastic bags out at cashiers unless requested, but that means shitall when everything you buy is triple-wrapped to begin with.

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      1 year ago

      If it makes you feel better a significant amount of microplastics come from tires wearing away on the road.

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      1 year ago

      Japan?

      *reads bio*

      Japan.

      EDIT: this was my experience in Japan as well: deny the plastic bag from the worker, to buy a plastic bag of 2 apples, individually wrapped in plastic, with the plastic foam sleeves to prevent bruising… and yet Japan still has less single-use plastic waste than America!

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        1 year ago

        Yeah Japan. The argument is that the big souvenir boxes are typically left open and shared among all your coworkers (which to be fair, is usually the case in my office). It still seems excessive though.

        What are people doing in the states that they actually have even more?