What was stopping them to do it before?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/5594090

Was reading new package, they removed plastics and now they brag about it.

I have issues in my life because of that. As a consumer I have to watch about my carbon footprint and recycle plastics, can even get fined if I don't.

So why would I praise them if they could do it long time ago and see how much plastic they produced each year.

I never asked to use plastics

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aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.social · 9 pts · 2y (2 replies)

What a meaningless statistic. If you reuse a plastic bag, that could also be 40,000 km of plastic, just atoms thick

naut@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y

I have different package at home.

"By removing the plastic from our packaging we will save the equivalent of about 30 million plastic bags annually*.

*based on 2019 sales volume in Europe, Middle East and Africa and a 10g plastic bag that is 45cm long"

so this doesn't even include Asia, Americas and Australia

LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one · 1 pts · 2y

What, you don't observe the standard unit of Q-tips per Earth's circumference?

bec@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y

what was stopping them?

It was cheaper than the alternative and people didn't care as much as they do today

nxfsi@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Turns out oil (needed to make plastic) is becoming more expensive.

RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

I see M O N K E Y