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RE: So Long, and Thanks for All the Little Soy Sauce Fish

Not in South Australia, where I am from! We have had so many awesome recycling and reduction initiatives throughout the years and they work. Not as well as they should, but theres no Styrofoam containers for fast food. No plastic Petri dishes of tiny side sauces.

No plastic take away coffee cups.

Now the only thing that I take offence to is the "single use" plastic rule not applying to things that while intended for a multiple serving, get devoured in one, thus making it "single use" - eg: Museli bars packaged in a box, but then individually wrapped in plastic.

Wax paper would do the same thing. So frustrating.

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Oh I see, perhaps I misread the post. I also support people taking initiatives and doing the right thing...I do think that a ban on plastics is a net good, I just think it has very little environmental impact, and relies mostly on keeping the public believing that they are doing something meaningful, while the truth is that it's only a tiny fraction of the global pollution.

The recycling in the US used to be a lot more acted upon, but over time it kinda got decentralized, states and cities have all very different standards... Americans just cannot be bothered to properly dispose of recycling materials - they don't wash the plastics, don't remove caps, throw nylon, etc. You supposed to remove the label from glass bottles - ideally. As a result, a lot of the recycling material is tainted and china has refused to buy any of our recyclables.

We do still have soy bottles - just as you mentioned - I haven't seen anything like the single-use packs you mentioned.

aaahhh sorry i replied to @holoz0r and it was mostly meant for @riverflows 🙃 sorry