Reynolds 3000ft plastic wrap box that’s been in my house since 1996. Finally used the last of it todayPM_ME_GENTIANS t1_irm1z2f wrote
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Maybe 3kg for the full roll? In which case that's similar emissions-wise to ~300g of beef, or driving 100 km. Though spread over so many decades it's pretty insignificant compared to all the other pollution we emit.
Fruitndveg t1_irm8fu9 wrote
Carbon emissions and plastic waste aren’t interchangeable. You can’t equate one to the other. They’re both individually bad for different reasons.
PM_ME_GENTIANS t1_is4be6g wrote
No, but the most pressing problem is still the carbon emissions, especially in a situation where the waste goes into a capped landfill like the above, as opposed to if it were in a country with uncovered landfills or high levels of material being "lost" to nature on the way to a landfill.
woolgathering_futz t1_irm49px wrote
And it's such a shame that so many people apply this justification when there are so many alternatives that would impact even less.
The amount of single use plastics going into landfill and the ocean is just depressing and in so many applications simply unnecessary, it's just lazy.
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