Greta Thunberg running thread

That's where the divide lies.
One faction of humanity looks at that as a great thing. Maybe even the path to achieve a lot of other goals.
The other side is horrified by it because they recognize it's a path to achieve a lot of other goals.

 

A planet the size of Jupiter on a collision course with Earth changes everything, too.

And there's not a damn thing we could do about it, also.

 

Is Plastic Recycling A Lie? Oil Companies Touted Recycling To Sell More Plastic - How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled

Capitalism will probably be the thing that wipes us out slowly before war can quickly do it.

 

Just avoid single-use plastics as much as possible.
Pass on the straw unless you are driving. Limit your use of plastic forks, etc.
If you refill a plastic water bottle once, you've cut your consumption in half.
Little things add up.

 

But we can't get the little things out of the ocean. The point of the article was big oil knew this 20 years ago.

 

Our Starbucks no longer includes straws with drinks.

 

Neither does Costco.

 

When Covid began and I was adverse to going to the store a bunch, I pulled out my Soda Stream from the back of the cabinet for seltzer. I still buy 2 liter bottles to slow down my CO2 canister consumption (otherwise I'm buying canisters way too fast). In any case my plastic consumption has plummeted just on water bottles.

Also, I bought a reusable Kurig cup.

If nothing else, the money I'm saving not buying single use kurigs and water bottles is tremendous.

 

Look for the EkoBrew paper filters and the EZ-Scoop. Makes a huge difference in cleanup.

 

I have a mesh filter. The only downside is I need to do a deep clean of the mesh from time to time to keep things flowing.

 

The paper filters fit inside the mesh filter and do a much better job of filtering, along with the ease of cleanup.