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The federal government is calling for input from grocers, food and beverage producers, provincial governments and the general population.

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[–] blakcod@lemmy.ca 54 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Wish they would go after companies that produce millions upon millions of tonnes of plastic bullshit. I’m not sorry if you created some widget, gadget, toy and it’s soul purpose is to be an injection molded happy meal 5 minute amusement piece. Capitalism… blah blah yeah yeah I know. A shift needs to happen.

[–] Ondergetekende@feddit.nl 38 points 1 year ago (14 children)

While the plastic gadgets are wasteful, they don't hold a candle to all the unnecessary food packaging that's used. Just tear apart one of your garbage bags, and see how much is food-related packaging and how much is gadgets.

I visited the US (WV) recently, and I was appalled by how much waste goes unrecycled. At home (Europe) our family produces one bag of unrecycled waste every 2 weeks, in WV we produced 6 bags in 2 weeks, and that's while living in European style (refillable water bottles, declining plastic bags for groceries, buying unpackaged produce, etc.).

[–] nathris@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Nearly every food item on the shelf has plastic. Aluminum cans are lined with plastic on the inside, glass bottles have a plastic freshness seal/cap. Even pasta boxes, one of the few cardboard packaged goods that don't have an inner plastic liner often have a little plastic window so you can see what the pasta looks like.

And yet we're being told that plastic bags are the problem. Literally the only plastic thing you get from the grocery store that isn't single use. Instead we have paper bags which are bulkier and have a higher carbon footprint, and we still end up with a bunch of actually single use plastic bags because we no longer have anything to use as small garbage bags.

[–] tezoatlipoca@mas.to 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@nathris @Ondergetekende Until it closed a few months ago we had a Zero-Waste bulk food store in town and it was where I got a majority of my non produce items: pasta, dried beans, lentils, nooch, bulk spices. (and they were the only place in town with vean meat alts in bulk like Byond and Impossible).

As a fall-back we go to the regular Bulk Barn type place it has a wider selection and thankfully have started allowing tared u-bring containers again.

Its bit of an art being zero-waste.

[–] Grimpen@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Bulk Barn's near me have "Sustainable Sundays", and you get 15% off on products you get in your own containers.

[–] tezoatlipoca@mas.to 1 points 1 year ago

@Grimpen Thata excellent, gotta see if my locals have that!

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