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I used to work in a warehouse that made a HUGE deal about the employees using the proper recycling bin so the company can get a nice check from somewhere or other for "going green"
This warehouse recieved thousands of pallets every day.
Each pallet is wrapped with hundreds of square feet of plastic wrap.
Each box is individually wrapped with maybe 10ftsq-50 depending on size.
Each box contains goods in plastic bags. Many of them with plastic clamshell packaging.
The products get unwrapped, and placed in larger boxes on shelves.
When the items get distributed to stores, the items were put in plastic bags, boxed up and wrapped in plastic wrap, boxes placed on pallets that were automatically wrapped by machines in hundreds of square feet of plastic.
None of the plastic from the warehouse floor is separated from the general waste.
Remember, it's your responsibility to reduce waste.
I loathe the trend to blame the end consumer for their waste and eliminate very publicly visible things like straws when the vast majority is caused by industry every step of the way. The amount of plastic I see in retail garbage bins is sickening, and the average customer has no clue because it's all long before anything ends up on the shelf.
Then people stop using plastic cutlery and think they're helping the planet meanwhile it's just a facade to keep the real wasters off their radar.
Also, I would LOVE to buy stuff not wrapped in plastic, but it doesn't exist. There are no glass bottles of milk anymore, no soy-butcher
glass costs and weighs significantly more than plastic
that's why plastic needs to be taxed, and sustainable alternatives subsidised, until it is the same or similar price to use...