I remember they were more concerned about a straw going up a sea turtle's nose that prompted the ban on straws, than all the plastic gloves and masks polluting the seas and ground killing many animals. What a strange time that was.
I kind of like the quality LED bulbs. It's nice being able to choose a color temp, and the lower amp draw lets me run more fixtures on a single circuit.
But they never last as long as incandescents did. Maybe it's theoretically possible for them to, but I don't see it in real life. And that makes their cost well exceed the amount of energy they save, plus they're a lot more hazardous in the trash.
Maybe people should just be allowed to choose WHATEVER KIND OF LIGHTBULB THEY WANT. For the government to get this far in the weeds is like President Carter being in charge of the White House Tennis Court reservations. (He was).
There’s a lot of claims that they hurt your health, too.
If we are frequency-oriented beings, which seems entirely possible regardless of religious paradigm, switching from what’s effectively heat/fire to whatever-the-crap LED’s do might not be an amazing idea.
Can we go back to plastic bags too? I have a few grocery stores near me that insist on you bringing your own or shelling out 5 cents for a crappy paper one.
I think I used to live there. The blue county govt required stores to charge $0.05 for a plastic bag but paper bags were free. They wanted the plebs to use those reusable bags that no one washes and are filthy. The plebs just used the paper bags until the county made stores charge for them too.
We moved to a purple county in a red state. Where I live now the store double bags everything in plastic!
1960s ----- we saved our big heavy paper bags and reused them for trash cans and other things (book covers). The plastic bags don't stand up very well.
Used heavy paper grocery bags have 101 uses that got lost in history.
The problem isn’t the plastic, unless they put a ban on forever plastics, bpas and phthalates then it’s nice but there’s still an underlying issue that goes unnoticed
Good.
But there's a significant part of me that can't believe our society has sunk so low that we actually need an EO for something like this.
I remember they were more concerned about a straw going up a sea turtle's nose that prompted the ban on straws, than all the plastic gloves and masks polluting the seas and ground killing many animals. What a strange time that was.
Cool! đź’ˇ Now do incandescent light bulbs.
We bought a bunch when Obama pulled that crap and we still have some.
I kind of like the quality LED bulbs. It's nice being able to choose a color temp, and the lower amp draw lets me run more fixtures on a single circuit.
But they never last as long as incandescents did. Maybe it's theoretically possible for them to, but I don't see it in real life. And that makes their cost well exceed the amount of energy they save, plus they're a lot more hazardous in the trash.
Maybe people should just be allowed to choose WHATEVER KIND OF LIGHTBULB THEY WANT. For the government to get this far in the weeds is like President Carter being in charge of the White House Tennis Court reservations. (He was).
THIS! l loathe those new lightbulbs. I want the old kind. They work better.
There’s a lot of claims that they hurt your health, too.
If we are frequency-oriented beings, which seems entirely possible regardless of religious paradigm, switching from what’s effectively heat/fire to whatever-the-crap LED’s do might not be an amazing idea.
Ha! They call them DIE-ODES.
Make Gas Cans easier to open again!
^^^^ this
Can we go back to plastic bags too? I have a few grocery stores near me that insist on you bringing your own or shelling out 5 cents for a crappy paper one.
I think I used to live there. The blue county govt required stores to charge $0.05 for a plastic bag but paper bags were free. They wanted the plebs to use those reusable bags that no one washes and are filthy. The plebs just used the paper bags until the county made stores charge for them too.
We moved to a purple county in a red state. Where I live now the store double bags everything in plastic!
u/#topkek
I remember growing up when it was all “save the rainforest” and use plastic. I bet we will cycle back in a year or so.
Bags ---- were originally paper
Yes, but the plastic ones are much better and have been replaced by paper where I live in some stores.
1960s ----- we saved our big heavy paper bags and reused them for trash cans and other things (book covers). The plastic bags don't stand up very well.
Used heavy paper grocery bags have 101 uses that got lost in history.
Used plastic bags are mostly just extra trash.
Making Straws Great Again
u/#bahaha
Make schools teach how to drink without a straw ---- again.
Be like me. I use a metal one.
Ooooor don’t use them at all
Free Diet Coke for everyone...
Who would have thought, 10 years ago, that plastic straws would make the almonds tingle again….(MATA)
The problem isn’t the plastic, unless they put a ban on forever plastics, bpas and phthalates then it’s nice but there’s still an underlying issue that goes unnoticed
Paper straws are more toxic than plastic.
I think President Trump has a pretty good reason to put a ban on paper straws. They have been using them to poison the do-gooders.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/08/28/paper-straws-worse-than-plastic-pfas-study/70702090007/
So using plastic is better than paper?
Why not metal straws? Even if applied to restaurants would be cool, I mean they use metal utensils anyways.