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What I haven't seen for some reason is that, at least where I am, we had recently made the switch to reusable plastic grocery bags before covid. Then covid hit and grocery stores were not allowing the reuse of said bags. So we all were not only switching back to single use plastic bags for groceries, but those bags had much more plastic than the old single use plastic bags
With the current inflation based shrinking of products this will only get worse. Food items are becoming a higher package to food ratio right before our eyes. >

Really wishing we could reverse this somehow, but that's the catch - how. :P >

Mandate a tax in ratio to the package size, shape, weight, and ease of being recyled.
Offer recycling cash back paid by the new tax.
You're welcome politicans, now just fucking do it. >

Discussions on banning single-use plastics are mostly a distraction to help corporate polluters. Most people are ignorant of the ratio on commercial pollution and consumer pollution. Just look at the mountains of car tires that get burned each year. That single tire weighs way more than all the plastic bags and straws you'll ever use in your life. >

What's the solution? No cars? >

What the fuck? No. Make companies pay more to dispose of trash. >

This title could also be “Disposable product use skyrocketed during pandemic”. >

Yeah I bet a large amount of it has to do with gloves, laboratory pipettes, the at-home test covid test kits, people doing more take home with plastic utensils vs eating in with metal utensils, etc.
Companies that can make use of paper packaging have been trying to shift away from plastic. >

All the PPE and all the takeout and delivery groceries would have been huge contributors. I’ve still got single use utensils and bags from 2020 and I imagine I’m not alone. >

Covid19 => much more food orders/deliveries to home => more plastic BS. >

don't forget all the single-use gloves in groceries. I used more plastic in 2020 than in my other 40 years.