c/lemmyshitpost · by OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world · 15d

So Healthy

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25 Comments

W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 28 pts · 15d (2 replies)

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 15d (1 reply)

you can also eat the bottle, if its plastic.

DeLancre@piefed.social · 1 pts · 15d

I bet bottle made of that nasty reusable thing called glass. Absolute disgrace.

KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 23 pts · 15d (5 replies)

When you see shit like this, you KNOW, they knew the shit was bad bit didn't want to lose profit.

Jax@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 15d (4 replies)

I don't think so.

Human history can be summed up in two words: unintended consequences.

turtlesareneat@piefed.ca · 15 pts · 15d (2 replies)

After seeing this happen with so many other things, it's hard to think of the corporation as a hapless victim of chance.

Jax@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 15d (1 reply)

I think that you're right to assume that corporations do not give a fuck beyond profit. I think you're wrong to assume that they somehow 'knew'. Occam's Razor dictates that they likely didn't.

GoTeamBoobies@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 12d

Here's one story about forever chemicals and executives knowing

https://www.propublica.org/article/3m-forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-inside-story

Doomsider@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 15d

Oh no, they knew plastics were bad news. They invented recycling to shift the conversation to consumers and now our entire planet is blanketed with it.

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-the-public-into-believing-plastic-would-be-recycled

gedaliyah@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 15d

djsiete@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 15d (2 replies)

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Apytele@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 15d (1 reply)

Or your favorite niche flavor of dorito in the corner store at 2am Sunday morning. This is what I mean when I say that while yes most ecological damage is caused by large corporations, there would still also have to be fundamental changes to a huge number of people's everyday lives. Convenience culture would have to die and I don't even know if I'm personally ready for that.

exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 14d

It's not just convenience alone. Plastic over soil reduces the use of water and energy. Plastic in packing and shipping even in-season local produce extends its life and reduces waste, can help keep things sanitary/safer longer.

We use plastic not just because it's cheap (even though it is), but also because it's really easy to form impermeable barriers for water/moisture, air, contaminants, microbes (both wanted and unwanted). We can debate whether those uses are worth the ecological or even health cost, but we have to acknowledge that refusing to use plastic also carries a cost, too.

Etterra@discuss.online · 3 pts · 14d (1 reply)

Where else am I gonna get my daily recommended dose of Vitamin P?

BreadOven@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 14d

You just gotta ask. I can supply you with a daily intake of vitamin p anytime.

RaoulDook@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 15d (1 reply)

Reminds me of that Cronenberg movie, Crimes of the Future

BreadOven@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 14d

Great movie. The ear person was kind of off-putting though.

IAmTheMusicMan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 15d

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ash@piefed.ca · 1 pts · 15d

Thank you for all the microplastics in my brain.