Green packaging

Vanishing without a trace might not be appreciated in any relationship but it is an excellent relationship to have with one's garbage that is made of plastic. What becomes a pile of garbage is that it should just disappear into thin air, right? Well, a newly developed plastic bag does just that - it completely dissolves in water. Companies use it when sending their products, magazines for example, to users, who can simply dissolve it at home - no trace of the bag left, less plastic on the environment.

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This sound like a great step forward!

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@fhernandez45 Nothing is an emergency until you feel the burn, or see the red lights. But plastic's impact stares at you in the face

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@fhernandez45 ?Say NO to plastic pollution >

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@bgreene47 Hear, hear! Make sure you spread the good word

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While we're at it, why don't we just quit driving cars and flying aircraft. Come to think about it, the walking will do is good.?

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@relliott49 Techniquly speaking plastic should be a reusable resource but can possibly mean to tell me that it can only be reused once

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@relliott49 As of yesterday in my household we will reduce the use of plastic. We are going to do it for all the beautiful animals in the world

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Whatever happened to reduce, reuse, recycle?

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@bmorris4c Stop Buying It!!! Or is that to inconvenient?

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@bmorris4c Idiots

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@cclark4e I agree if people were more careful where they throw them away it would save the poor animals at least but how do we stop these couldn't care less people who don't care damn

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So many people just don't care.... I've just came back from the beautiful English countryside and there are bottles

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@rrose4g There are bottles and tins chucked everywhere.... the human race seems to be intent on destroying our beautiful planet..

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It's great that consumers are trying to go plastic free and I hope more and more people try but surely the companies that produce it need to be stopped and alternative products need to be more readily available.

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@njohnson4i My exact same thoughts!!! Stop using, stop making it

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@njohnson4i the less people use it, the less plastic gets manufactured.

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@skennedy4k People must always take the lead. Companies will follow suit once it starts affecting their profits

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@skennedy4k if everyone boycotted it for just one week they would find a way to change it but the country is too busy fighting one another instead of helping.

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@ewest4m Agreed

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What do you suggest unstead of sandwhich baggies and tupperware type food containers? For lunches?

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In germany the stores are not allowed anymore to give free plastic bags, we have to pay. And we also pay for plastic bottles. When we bring the plastic bottles back to the store, we get the money back we ve paid

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A lot of plastics can easily be reused the problem is people being to fucking lazy to put their shit in the right bin or a bin at all.

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@rcook4u The problema is also the lack of participation of the industry... most of them just care about the profit.. they keep on getting fatter...

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@rcook4u reusing plastic won't save your body and if people are buying things in plastic when they are out they're not likely to take it home especially if it needs washing.

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@mharrison4w ?I reuse those plastic take away containers you get at restaurants but they crack around the edges so easily you end up with plastic in your food. Much better to have containers made from food based materials like corn starch

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@mharrison4w ?I Where I live there is no recycling center or bin to speak of. It's a town of 3,000 people. I just try not to buy plastic wear. We're getting better at it, but it takes restraint some days!

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@cscott4y It's also super important to think about what happens in other countries. China, brazil and India are huge contributors to not recycling.?

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the more WE change our habits (use and buy less plastic, find alternatives, etc, etc), the more manufactures will have to change to keep us buying their products.

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@rholmes52 It is up to us to change and demand change to bring about a change for the sake of the whole planet and the future for all.

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@rholmes52 Recycling isn't the answer. You can recycle some plastic but it never goes away. Then there's the many non-recyclable plastics.?

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@rholmes52 Reduce consumption of plastics, then reuse what you cannot reduce your use of. THEN recycle.

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@rgomez55 That's really the issue. You literally can't buy anything without plastic packaging, so no matter how much we recycle, it has no effect.

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@tramirez56 I know. I've really been noticing it a lot lately with my shopping. I am trying to make changes bit by bit but it's still really disheartening to buy products that I need and haven't yet found a suitable alternative for and which have non recy

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In Nepal, one of the poorest countries in the world, they make fabric bags for supermarkets....why can't we do that?

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? @apierce59 We do, I have a bunch at home.

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? @apierce59 I wonder if they still use string bags to take for your shopping in Turkey and other Eurasian countries?? I used them there when I went to buy bread.

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@rclark5b Whatever we used before we had plastic bags we can use to replace the plastic.

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@rclark5b They do make fabric grocery bags, they sell them at nearly every store.

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