4th April 2024, 2:16 AM
The potential substitutes for plastic which biodegrade much faster and naturally are promising, but more expensive simply due to building that infrastructure in the first place. Like everything else that involves earth oil, it was a mistaken path born of shortsightedness.
We should probably go with cardboard again for storing our video games, and straight up wood and rubber for housing our computer components. Heck, my mom carries around a glass straw in her purse these days and just cleans it when she gets home.
The manufacturing and disposal are the biggest issues, and until that's taken care of, things like outlawing straws are meaningless token gestures. If you owe $2000 a month on your home and someone offers to give you a dollar a month, they aren't really helping you. In fact, an offer like that is basically an insult and should reasonably be treated as such, in both cases.
We should probably go with cardboard again for storing our video games, and straight up wood and rubber for housing our computer components. Heck, my mom carries around a glass straw in her purse these days and just cleans it when she gets home.
The manufacturing and disposal are the biggest issues, and until that's taken care of, things like outlawing straws are meaningless token gestures. If you owe $2000 a month on your home and someone offers to give you a dollar a month, they aren't really helping you. In fact, an offer like that is basically an insult and should reasonably be treated as such, in both cases.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)