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All food packaging could be glass, paper, metal and cloth. It was just that until plastic was invented. We could go back to that and the world and people would be a bit healthier for it. We won’t, though, not until we’re forced to by something catastrophic.
I want this so badly. Ban single use plastics outside of medical
Total CO2 will go up if we tried that. If we were smarter about reuse, like say, washing processing and resealing glass containers instead of crushing and remelting them (at best) we might be better. But plastics are much lighter, space efficient and durable. Which makes them less carbon intensive in many cases.
Really we need less one time use or single serving containers of any material. Which isn’t likely unless society collapses and we have to live in local communes to survive.
Is plastic in our brains not catastrophic enough?
The plastic in our brains made us think that indeed, it isn’t, or that there isn’t any plastic in our brains.
I, for one, welcome the microplasic particles in my brain.
How long until some TikTok dipshit makes a short about eating them with hot sauce or something?
I dunno. Seems like honoring the culture.
How to teach animals they can eat that shape, until they encounter a plastic one
Just checked, these were invented in 2016 and didn’t take off.
I haven’t seen plastic rings in years, are they banned or are some companies just not using them?
Edit I’m in the UK btw.
I haven’t seen them a long time either, but these days the six packs are completely wrapped in plastic. Another win for the packaging industry I guess.
How did it take humanity this long to think of this‽
Money. Plastic is probably still cheaper.
And more resilient to weather/time/etc. for transporting in sub-optimal conditions.
There’s also the possibility that since this is edible and exposed, putting this in a warehouse would invite a horde of rodents and insects.
It’s a good idea, but the reason we haven’t done this before is because it creates inconvenient problems for distribution centers and the logistics of transportation and storage. Which in the short and long run, costs more money to either prevent the negative outcomes, or deal with them later.
It is better for the environment, but I’d rather go after billionaires and huge corporations polluting the environment without repercussions first.
It’s not like there isn’t a middleground. I didn’t see those awful sixpack rings in years, in Germany where I live those sixpacks are packed in cardboard (goes around the sixpack once for stability). Works perfectly fine, and given it’s just paper with a little bit of printer colours (which, technically, could also be done environmentally friendly) there are little to no reasons not to do it this way except for greed. …therefore it isn’t surprising plastic sixpack rings are specifically common in the US, lol.
Yeah ive never seen a six pack with plastic rings. Its always wrapped in a thin cardboard box here.
