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That's it! I'm going to create a disposable Tupperware-like product to save people the trouble of emptying and cleaning containers. I'm sure nobody has ever thought of that before.

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Joe Guy wrote:
Sat Feb 06, 2021 7:33 pm
That's it! I'm going to create a disposable Tupperware-like product to save people the trouble of emptying and cleaning containers. I'm sure nobody has ever thought of that before.
Yes they have ... it's called Styrofoam.

Or you could just eat it all in one sitting — no leftovers, no problem!!
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Bicycle Bill wrote:
Sat Feb 06, 2021 10:52 pm
Or you could just eat it all in one sitting — no leftovers, no problem!!
Eating it all in one sitting is what got me to my present (over-)weight....so yeah, that is a problem.
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Styrofoam is non-fattening!
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And if you eat styrofoam, your poop floats.

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Bicycle Bill wrote:
Sat Feb 06, 2021 10:52 pm

Or you could just eat it all in one sitting — no leftovers, no problem!!
Leftovers are for tomorrow, not for saving!!
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My dog, may she rest in peace, would eat styrofoam, if she was offered anything to eat out of it. No experiments were conducted on whether her poop floated.

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I avoid polystyrene (styrofoam) food containers when possible, and fortunately most take out places have migrated to paper container products that biodegrade. On the plus side, we have a local company that takes styrofoam and has a process they turn it into an oil product. Just got back from dropping off a car load of the stuff that built up with holiday season package deliveries.

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I can’t believe it hasn’t been banned for years already. Far too many places still use the stuff - heck even Dunkin’ just recently switched to paper. Imagine all the Dunkin’ styrofoam cups clogging up landfills.

Ugh.
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Our new trash hauler has the contract to take away everyone's trash in our little suburban town for the next three years. It saves having half a dozen different company's trucks tearing up all the town's streets as it was six years ago. This is the second company to have the contract, The old one was going to raise the rate to $21 a month, so they put it out for bids. Now we're $17.50.

We separate the trash into recyclable and not. Neither hauler takes poly-styrene, so it goes to the dump, I mean sanitary landfill, to rot forever,
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The council does our garbage, (subcontracted to a private company, SERCO.) Our bins are; household waste, tins and plastics, glass, carboard and paper, garden waste. Polystyrene goes in household and then into landfill.
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We have a municipal garbage hauler. When the recycling effort first started in out neighborhood we were required to separate recyclables into 6 different categories(cardboard, paper, plastic, clear glass, amber glass, colored glass) along with standard trash (yard waste was separately collected) and we were required to have a separate container for each. However, when the recyclables were collected, all sic containers were poured into a single truck; the argument was that, although they were not recycling separately, they want people to "get used to it"; it eventually went to to the town council and the policy was changed (and more than 25 years later all recyclables are still collected in one truck and in a common bin).

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The market for recycling materials has bottomed out, and a great many municipalities are losing money on curbside programs and sending the material to be burned or buried.

Nobody in the public sector has the nuts to bitch slap the citizens with the kind of waste collection costs that would compel them to REDUCE their consumption of single plastic contained foodstuffs and household products. They certainly don’t have the nuts to demand that producers bear the cost of disposing of all the paper plastic styrofoam et al. packaging they put around their products - if they did, consumer choice wouldn’t even have to come into it. And it is hard to reduce by purchasing choices, because almost all the producers are using a shit ton of plastic packaging these days.
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BoSoxGal wrote:
Tue Feb 09, 2021 4:42 pm
slap the citizens with the kind of waste collection costs * * * demand that producers bear the cost of disposing of all the paper plastic styrofoam et al. packaging they put around their products
Econ 101, subsidizing something will result in more of it.

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Right it should be on the production end. Germany did this many years ago and it resulted in big changes in industry. They had collection points for packaging in stores, and the cost of collecting and disposing was charged back to producers rather than to municipalities or consumers.
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However just doing some current research I see they still have problems with too much waste there.
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TPFKA@W wrote:
Sun Feb 07, 2021 4:49 pm
My dog, may she rest in peace, would eat styrofoam, if she was offered anything to eat out of it. No experiments were conducted on whether her poop floated.

Our lovely dog would chew up and swallow whole filberts and never associated the horrible (to her) and hilarious (to us) results when when they made a return appearance later on. It was years later that I snuck into a writers conference where Ken Kesey recited "shaking like a dog shitting peach pits" and about died recalling it.

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