I could have titled this as just waste created by living daily, but wanted to focus it down a little more. I feel kind of like im the crazy one that sees this insane waste when eating at restaurants, wrappers, cups, drink carriers going right in the trash, billions per day. Its insanity if you think about it.

I’ve at least been never using cup lids or straws and never taking drink carriers when theyre offered (what a massive waste of cardboard!). Then most of the waste is at least paper from the bag and wrapper. Still not great. And yes, I know the solution would be “cook at home!” But that also wastes a lot of freshwater from dish washing, and sometimes it’s just nice to eat somewhere else.

I wonder if this is just something you notice as you get older. Then again older peiple probably waste the most, but I’m just guessing.

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I’ve at least been never using cup lids or straws and never taking drink carriers when [they’re] offered (what a massive waste of cardboard!).

    1. lids and straws are absolutely insignificant against the whole.
    2. cardboard drink carriers use a rougher kind of cardboard without dyes or wax or plastic, and it’s on the end of the spectrum with the least impact to the environment.

    …the bag and wrapper.

    You may have picked a class of restaurant that produces the most hard-to-biodegrade waste, and I’m not sure it’s proper to paint an entire industry based on its worst members. It’s like the sub-prime mortgage crisis but for restaurant and waste.

    “cook at home!”

    I’m not sure you’re comparing two values with the same magnitude.

    I wonder if this is just something you notice as you get older.

    Your writing suggests a member of a cohort that isn’t even close to getting ‘older’. As an American Millennial, in a country with a rapidly-declining life expectancy, growing old may not be a valid concern.

    peiple

    A hat on a hat.