XPost: comp.os.linux.misc
From: tnp@invalid.invalid
On 10/12/2025 11:40, c186282 wrote:
> On 12/10/25 06:14, Daniel70 wrote:
>> On 10/12/2025 1:10 am, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>>> On 2025-12-08 14:55, Lars Poulsen wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 7 Dec 2025 14:37:25 -0500, Paul wrote:
>>>>>> The plastic baskets are electronically marked, and the detectors
>>>>>> at the
>>>>>> store exit beep if you try to walk out with the plastic basket.
>>>>
>>>> On 2025-12-08, rbowman wrote:
>>>>> I'll have to look more closely. I was surprised they had enough
>>>>> shrinkage
>>>>> for it to be a concern. The carts, otoh, easily convert to a Homeless
>>>>> Hilux.
>>>>
>>>> I, too, have noticed that many stores have a distinct shortage of
>>>> handbaskets. I remember that back in the 1960s, I read about a study
>>>> that showed that people with shopping carts bought more than people
>>>> using handbaskets. This prompted stores to promote shopping carts.
>>>>
>>>> The consumer groups suggested that it might be because people were more
>>>> likely to use a cart if they knew on their way in that they were buying
>>>> more than would fit in a handbasket.
>>>
>>> This days, I shop with the reusable bag that they told us to use
>>> instead of one use plastic bags. That way, I know how heavy my bag is
>>> getting, so that I can walk back home.
>>>
>> Over the last few weeks, I've noticed the local Supermarket handing
>> out what I can only ASSUME are a new style of single use plastic bags.
>>
>> Maybe a different form of plastic .... which could be recyclable.
>
> Hmmm ... what IS it ? Any idea ?
>
> There are various kinds of 'recyclable' plastics.
> Some recycle better than others. For what's going
> to be holding kitchen trash you want something
> that decomposes under moisture/UV/fungi after
> maybe a year - but CLEAN decomposition.
>
> They've gotten better at that, but I still have
> not heard of a really 'clean' product that breaks
> down to non-toxics/non-persistents.
>
> Such 'plastics' probably exist, but may be too
> expensive to produce.
>
I think there simply is no great commercial driver to design them
Better to use paper or cardbaord for packaging Like egg cartons.
> 'Green' is not inherently evil - though politics
> often make it that way. If you CAN, easily, do
> something 'green' then, well, why not ?
>
There are two 'Greens' One is about reducing undesirable impacts on the
environment (of which COI2 is probably not among their number) and the
other is about guilt tripping you into buying overpriced dysfunctional
crap, and funding pointless academics to increase your guilt...
--
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to
rule.
– H. L. Mencken, American journalist, 1880-1956
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