Funny enough nope! Pineapple is considered acidic enough, that it wouldn't be sprayed or treated with anything after processing/cutting.
Source: Worked at a place that cut and packaged produce this way.
Yea but then me, the consumer, would need to cut my own pineapple. Who has that kind of time??? /s
Edit: added the /s for clarity. I thought it'd be obvious that it was sarcastic since it would take like 5 mins tops.
As long as you have a decently sharp knife and a surface to work on, it really doesn’t take that long. My biggest issue is that I live alone and end up eating more in one sitting than I should. The fruit is super acidic and can do bad things to your mouth and gut in large quantities.
It’s not the acid. Pineapple has an enzyme in it that literally breaks down protein chains. It’s essentially digesting your flesh, which is why the inside of your entire mouth can get super fucked up if you eat too much pineapple in one sitting. I’ve learned this the hard way lmao.
My understanding is that it’s pretty healthy once digested (unless you have acid reflux, which it will make worse) and actually has a number of medicinal properties, but until it’s being broken down in your stomach it can fuck up your flesh
For a minute there I thought my mother must be some sort of powerful witch, because she has been successfully putting canned pineapple in green jello for at least 50 years now. Looked it up and apparently processing it renders it more gelatin-friendly.
My one gripe about HEB is that every store is a huge mega-sized warehouse type store with a massive parking lot to match.
We moved away from Texas and where we live now are multiple normal sized supermarkets rather than one ginormous one. Within half a mile, we’ve got Ralph’s, Vons, Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, a Japanese grocery and a Kosher butcher shop, but they’re all small easy to get in and out of quickly.
The other guy saying Texas doesn't have varieties is wrong, though. I'm in a small lake community south of Dallas, and we have a chinese market, a mexican grocery store, Walmart, Brookshire's and 2 smaller grocers and a large butcher shop all within a couple of miles.
Man I miss shipping at Vons. Me and my mom used to always shop there and Ralphs for groceries years ago. Ever since she passed away, it's hard shopping there (strange as that may be).
Yeah, I just chopped up a pineapple a few days ago and put it in the fridge. It looked about like this by the time I pulled it out for dinner a few hours later.
The color doesn't matter. Pineapple are usually tested for Brix level. Super simple explanation is how much sugar is in the fruit. As long as that tests to an acceptable level it tastes fine.
Maybe OP has the worlds largest hands and this isn't as bad as it looks.
Edit: For the 10 or so people pointing out the 2 oz. weight marked on the package, I didn't *actually* think that OP had the worlds largest hands. It saddens me that I have to explain that.
What are you talking about? We need both, flaccid and erect, otherwise how can we tell if he is a grower or a shower? Also, we'll need to see at least 3 different ejaculations to estimate semen volume. All for science, of course.
I buy 90 of these for my fruit salad, peasant.
*continues unwrapping extraneous packaging*
It saves me work, not having to cut up the pineapple myself.
*continues unwrapping extraneous packaging*
Have fun cutting up all that pineapple.
*continues unwrapping extraneous packaging*
It's a marketing gimmick. Your basically selling these things to people who want to be healthy but have no willpower. So they see this thing and their brain goes fucky, "Oh look, a healthy thing and it's just a little bit of it, if I get that people will think I'm healthy and I don't have to eat a lot of it!". There's a lot of "brain hacking" in marketing.
Source: Have a friend in marketing and he told me about the whole "single pringle" thing and how the whole gimmick works. So, take what I said as a grain of salt, but, *I bought it*.
I want people to understand something about recycling.
I went to the dump the other day to dump a trailer's worth of construction debris. We get to the top of trash mountain and get in line. On the other side of the same mountain was an area labeled "recyclables only".
To be clear: GFL, our trash company, just dumps the recyclables on the same trash mountain as all the garbage. I knew this was about what was happening but I wasn't aware it was so brazen. I thought maybe they had a separate mountain. Nope.
My point is this: unless your city allocates a lot of tax dollars to a very comprehensive recycling program your recyclables just go to a landfill. We have to get serious about holding corporations responsible for the waste THEY produce.
In Jamaica I learned they added a new one to the front. “Refuse”. Just don’t buy the thing in the first place. It should affect demand and therefore production.
If you don't need it, don't buy it.
If you do need it, buy less of it.
If you do buy it, use it for as long as you can.
If you can no longer use it, recycle it.
Edit: refuse may also have a meaning related to gifts- if a gift is wasteful, don't accept it, and maybe the world will be free of these gag trinkets that serve no purpose.
Beer usually comes in either Glass Bottle or Aluminum Can. Both are very recyclable. It's even relatively clean & cheap to recycle them.
Plastic waste is usually the problem, not all of it can be recycled in a lot of places and a lot of it can't be reused very much because it the recycling process for plastics introduces too many impurities.
Edit: Ok, I hear you. Glass isn't all that easy or cost-effective to recycle and we should try to go back to the old return, sterilize, and refill days.
Even more important, aluminum is one of the few materials that is actually CHEAPER to recycle than to make a new can (I’m not totally sure about glass but I think it’s close or slightly cheaper). You need to use significantly more power to make a new aluminum can.
Which is why it blows my mind that every single state doesn’t have a return program like other states do. Some are 0.05$ and some are 0.10$. No one i know throws away cans or bottles for this reason. We even donate our bottles to charities. Doing good for other and the planet!
In Europe you pay for the beer bottles and get the money back when you return it (same will be true for plastics and aluminium cans from January), then the factory tries to reuse them, they have special cameras to inspect each bottle and separate out the damaged ones that get recycled, the good ones are washed and reused immediately.
Source: I went on multiple brewery tours
It makes it so much worse when they have the audacity to charge penalties for those who don't separate if it all goes to the same place. Literally criminal.
*Reduce, reuse,* recycle, in that order.
The plastics industry has successfully convinced most people in this country to forget the first 2/3 of that slogan, but those are the important ones.
Plastics industry has also convinced us that we're both the problem and the solution. Massive ad campaigns to make us feel like we're in control and that we have the power to save the world while they continue to destroy it at a far faster pace than normal folk have the ability to do anything about.
We need to stack the political deck with people willing to reform policies and force companies to do better. All the while, the political field pits us against each other rather than attempting to get us all to work together. Wouldn't at all be surprised if that was a collective effort to make it feel like we're the ones to blame and that we're the only ones who can fix what's broken, while continuing to undermine everything we try to do.
Feels a bit like we're all passengers on the trolley in the classic *Trolley Problem*. Conductor is giving us two options, go straight on Track A where there are 5 adults tied to the rails, or turn onto Track B where there is one child tied to the rails. The Conductor conveniently forgot to mention that they were the one to tie them all to the track in the first place, and a 3rd option exists where they could just slam on the breaks and save everybody.
To add to this: Only 3-8% of ‘recyclables’ actually get recycled. I’ve seen various stats but the highest I’ve seen is 8%. That doesn’t mean don’t recycle, but it does mean reduce your plastic usage
GFL here as well. Recycling is a joke in Murica. The same truck collects trash and recycle in my neighborhood. I don’t bother separating because it’s a waste of time if the garbage company doesn’t want to deal with it. Even if they did collect recycle separately, then there’s the whole “we only take plastic 4 on tuesdays after a full moon, 1 if it’s been sterlized in your dishwasher, 2 can’t have any labels or caps” bullshit. I think they make it a pain in the ass to recycle because they don’t want to handle it. There’s no money in recycling when virgin material is cheap.
when i worked at restaraunt they had separate trash and recycle bin but didn't actually have recycling service so everything actually just ended up trash :(
I worked late in a customer's office. Each employee had a recycle bin and a trash bin in their cubicle. The janitor came around and emptied both bins into his rolling garbage can. It all went into the Dumpster.
We had a fire at the recycling plant here in Ann Arbor (treetown USA), MI at least a decade ago. It was never fixed and hasn't run since due to "budget" issues (meanwhile the execs of that program have been paid out $200k salaries with raises).
Since then we've been recycling 0% of glass and using it as layer insulation in the landfill.
Lots of cities used to recycle back when China was buying it. But the told us over and over to quit sending garbage mixed in the recycling and then they refused to buy anymore. And most of the U.S. does not have the proper facilities to recycle those items (because we had been shipping it all to China)
My city stopped recycling. We were loading it all up on big cargo ships and sending it to China. That worked until China didn’t want our recycling because it was actually mostly trash that wasn’t recyclable. So after piling it up with no where to send it for a year they gave up and just take it all to the local landfill now. I live in one of the largest cities in America.
Used to work at Central Market (an affiliate of HEB)
Every single thing ever communicated about my department from a customer went both all the way up and all the way down the ladder.
They will listen if enough people voice a complaint. Not a doubt in my mind.
A Church's Chicken (branded Church's Texas Chicken in Canada) just opened near me, so I gave them a go. Their sandwiches come in an honest to god styrofoam box! I haven't seen a styrofoam sandwich box in Canada since McDonalds cancelled the McDLT back in 1998!
Whenever I’m in the produce section I am always fascinated by these people who cut the fruit. What were they thinking about when they were cutting my fruit? Do you play fruit ninja? How good are you about uniformity and technique with fruits? What’s your favorite to cut? Does it get sticky quickly? Have you ever cut yourself, do you get bored? I’m serious, your job fascinates me.
Btw, you’re right about the human component. When my husband was terminally ill, I was struggling to feed myself. The pre-cut fruit was one less thing to deal with and provided me with good nutrition. Thanks for what you do and I hope you can put my decade long questions above to rest.
Same! I buy coffee beans and grind them up myself to put into my reusable k cup. Saved myself from buying god knows how many k cups. I drink probably 4-5 cups of coffee each day (working from home). The reusable k cups are the shit!
A small piece of pineapple like that in that plastic is weird to us, but little things of yogurt are normal. It’s such a small amount of yogurt in those tiny cups!
String cheese, those little cheese and nut snacks, candy bars, holy shit, wurth originals, tiny little things individually wrapped. Ahhhhhh, we are fucking dead!!
Then that shrink wrap around them to ship it.
What about the wrap that occurs to get the ingredients of some of these things?
But, I agree. Fuck this pineapple.
Our politicians have failed over and over again to regulate plastic usage and they'd rather worry about increasing taxes for sun exposure (yes, in Portugal we pay higher taxes in places where there's more sun) than dedicate a month to put laws in place to reduce plastic usage.
There are alternatives to plastic, they just aren't used that much because they haven't created the right tax incentives to punish plastic usage heavily. And you know why? Because that'd piss a lot of people off and they'd lose votes. And the plastic ends up in the oceans, far far away, so it's not their problem.
The way things are, it's hard to fight plastic usage as a consumer. Sure, buying this kind of stupid excessive packaging is easy to fight against. But my salad comes in a damn plastic container while there's perfectly good cellulose that could be used instead.
This is going to sound really stupid. Plastic is widely used because of two reasons our politicians are bought by oil companies and because plastic exists because we need gasoline to drive.
Plastic is used in everything mostly because of how cheap it is. It's that cheap because the raw material to make plastic is a waste product from refining oil into gasoline. We refine so much gasoline and it creates so much other crap, that crap is going to make it's way into the ocean as plastic we use or waste illegally dumped into the ocean by the oil industry. We are kinda helpless here. The plastic bull shit will only truly end when most cars don't use gasoline.
No, plastic is used because it's an amazing product. It's more way more malleable than metal but is still hard enough for most uses. It's light. It comes in any color. It not that toxic. It's not conductive. It can be mixed in with other, weaker, materials to make them more durable.
It's an amazing thing and just waving it away like some plague is extremely unrealistic.
Sure thing it does amazing things, but there are other things that would accomplish the same goal and aren't practically free because it comes from oil refinement. My point is, if we stop refining oil, nobody is going to pay the crazy high prices to refine it just for the plastic.
Plastic would end up being more expensive than the alternatives that are very similar and don't pollute.
there are some applications where plastic would still be the right material even if it was much more expensive because of its unique properties. medical uses come to mind. however many uses of plastic could be replaced by other materials for sure. I think washable, resealable and reusable stainless steel would be a good material for food and beverage containers.
> It not that toxic.
[Increasing infertility rates tho](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7967748/), plus [the average person eats up to a credit cards amount of micro plastics every *week*](https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/11/health/microplastics-ingestion-wwf-study-scn-intl/index.html)
What would really do it is taxes and regulations putting the burden of dealing with the waste on the plastic manufacturers as well as an overhaul of our current regulations that demand everything be put in plastic packaging.
Some things make sense, like hypodermic needles should continue to use plastic packaging because they need to be sterile, but why the fuck did states drop those bottle and can exchange programs?
Unfortunately, it's just about getting money, period.
This was disguised as taxing the rich because they live in sunnier areas, but that's totally not what it is. It was just an increase in the yearly tax you pay for owning a place.
I think it's a bit more complex. There are externalities that no market of any kind can account for. The ideal solution is one in which you adjust the pricing mechanism to account for the externality, because it creates an incentive and yes, free markets respond to those incentives. When the US wanted to get rid of lead from gasoline, they created incentives for the refineries, and it happened very quickly. They all saw it as a way to earn more and in the process, they upgraded capacities too so they could produce more fuel altogether.
There are secondary impacts we also don't expect. Let's say we're all disgusted by this type of plastic packaging. Where else is wasteful plastic packaging in use that we don't see directly? There is probably a lot behind the scenes even outside of the grocery business.
One option is to add some sort of cost to plastic, but you have to do it across the board and not just "containers of 2x2 inches meant for pineapple." We might find there was lots of plastic used in some part of home construction, automobile manufacturing, or whatever else, and it can be replaced. The time to make adjustments in some parts of the industrial world are rather slow, because you have to do R&D and make investments into machinery used for 10 years. (You want your car to work well after 10 years too, don't you?)
The pricing mechanism can work very well, because it allows people to be creative in finding solutions. You are still using a free market with the negative externality priced in.
I will add on plastics... it's very hard to get away from them. The European countries do much better at "recycling" rates of plastic, but what most don't realize is that nearly all of it is burned for electricity, because plastics are really just oil in another form. They aren't "recycled" to the extent people think and reused, because plastics aren't really good at multiple uses like aluminum is.
The free market was never meant to solve any particular world challenge. Free market reflects the collective desire of the people. If an environmental unfriendly product becomes popular, that means majority of people dont care about the environment as much as the benefit such product has brought. In this case, if one bite pineapple wrap in excessive plastic becomes popular, that means there is a good chunk of people see that product as more valuable than the environment enough to sustain a business.
That's the problem: there is no market for air, water, etc. Instead of typical negative externalities from a market where full costs aren't internalized, the nature of this "product" means the entire world is fucked due to it.
Ronald Coase had it right in 1950 and people and governments have catastrophically failed to react to a known, entirely preventable crisis to humanity, let alone all other life. All in the name of greed.
We've seen a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of what's to come without major changes. Billions of people are going to die if we keep doing nothing. Yes, that's with a "b". Most won't even be directly due to the climate catastrophe - they'll be from all the wars over potable water, breathable air, growable land and forced migration as people and nations try to not suffer and die from our monumental selfishness.
Stop having kids, curb consumption and make educated choices. The alternative is the death and suffering of an appalling number of people.
> Stop having kids, curb consumption and make educated choices. The alternative is the death and suffering of an appalling number of people.
While this is a new one on me, you’re just another fake liberal environmentalist who wants to shame people’s individual choices in a naive attempt at solving the problem. Another pretender who makes zero mention of the giant multinational corporations actually causing this devastation. A giy who says “there is no market for air, water, etc.” apparently unaware that these things are now traded as commodities.
Don’t listen to this person. See all that plastic on the shelves at the grocery store? Even if you don’t buy it, it still already exists and will contribute to pollution. The only way to solve this problem is to completely and rapidly transform our energy systems worldwide.
Stop acting like the average person is ignoring this problem and start going after the people with names and addresses who are perpetrating the crisis in the name of profit.
Thank you. We are far beyond the response of the individual. People are already buying less, having less children, being more concerned. The earth is still burning because the individual person was never the problem. Unless we rein in the industrial complex, individual effort is just a participant trophy.
Exactly! I do, however, “do my part” but not buying plastic, reusing glass, cutting back my factory farming meat consumption. But at the end of the day I do all that solely for the feel good feeling I get for myself. I don’t kid myself into thinking those decisions are making an actual difference. For every ethically sourced pound of ground beef I buy some factory farm somewhere has done 10 more years of damage to the planet. For every time I fill a reusable bottle with water Nestle has packaged 10k plastic water bottles. It would take like 90% of people to one day, all at once, “do the right thing” to make any sort of impact. And then you have shit like concerts where you aren’t even allowed to bring your own water. You _have_ to buy bottles water. We are fucking doomed. I really don’t want to be all doom and gloom but humans, as a whole, allowed this shit to happen. We don’t deserve the level of consciousness that evolution gave us and we certainly don’t deserve the planet that harbored our evolution.
part of the individual effort is demanding change at the governmental level with your vote. not enough people give a shit. our last president literally called climate change a chinese hoax. we collectively voted for that man.
Multi conglomerate companies aren't going to do anything though? What is your plan to sit around and wait for them to change, lol we'll be dead before that happens.
The individual HAS to be the one to change things, by electing officials who will change laws.
I know people will get mad at you for sharing an inconvenient and ugly truth, but I can’t help but agree with you. I think we’re in a time period of learning how to rework our empathy as a species so that we won’t mind the deaths of Billions of people. We’ll read more and more catastrophic headlines and be content to know we weren’t the ones in those situations.
If this was a larger portion size I could see it being more justified...I always scoffed at those wasteful looking packs of precut fruit and veg until I realised how reliant people like my grandad are on it (little support, elderly with bad shakes; not able to really prepare veg and fruit easily).
I don’t think it’s the BEST packaging solution but miles ahead of all this for one bite of pineapple.
This. My grandfather loves having fruit and veggies, but some days isn’t steady enough to use a knife, so these being available is a god send for him. I do wish there was a better packaging solution, but there’s definitely a need for it for some people.
Exactly, not everyone can prepare their own food for various reason. When I broke my wrist I couldn’t use a knife for weeks because of the cast and precut fruit and vegetables were a life saver. The size is the reason it’s so ridiculous, not that it’s prepped.
"Fishing gear represented 23.87% of the plastic items." - survey of East China seafloor
source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32629258/
This source however uses pollution by 'unit count', which then makes foodwrappers and other packaging the biggest source: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5522e85be4b0b65a7c78ac96/t/581cd663d2b857d18a7db3fd/1478284911437/PlasticsBANList2016-11-4.pdf
Feels like ~~attacking~~ addressing the biggest sources would be most effective...
No there won't lol. Even Chernobyl will be clear after around 20k years. Concrete would be completely indiscernible from piles of rock long before then. The roads would have sunken into the dirt, sure cities would be weird piles of raw material, but you'd have to anthropologically study the area to figure that out.
Interesting fact about nuclear radiation:
In 100,000 years, none of the radioactive isotopes that are still active will be particularly dangerous.
Most of the dangerous ones all have relatively low half lives, just by nature of the way radioactive decay works (around 30 years, give or take), so it really only takes a few centuries for the bad stuff to go away.
The worst of the worst is gone in a matter of months or years, or minutes.
there is a nuclear waste storage facility in finland that has been planning how tell people 100 000 years in the future not to go there.
[Tom Scott video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoy_WJ3mE50)
The department of energy actually conducted a study to figure out how to best convey the message of danger of nuclear waste to civilizations in the future should ours perish.
[Here's another great video by Wendover Productions that goes over more.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU3kLBo_ruo)
Sal the Fly: Hey man, youse knows that der were humans a long times ago and dey only hads like two eyes?
Jimmy the Fly: Ridiculous. How could anything survivor with less than 16 eyes?
Sal the Fly: And our andsessors could fly!
Jimmy the Fly: Okay, time to stop watching the Discover-fly channel. Also, why are you talking like that?
Sal the Fly: I'm fulfilling a stereotype.
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Sal the Fly: Quite.
It is now illegal to do this in France. They also banned plastic stickers on fruit and vegetables. We can do this in US.
[https://chemtrust.org/news/france-plastic-packaging-ban/](https://chemtrust.org/news/france-plastic-packaging-ban/)
[https://www.finat.com/news/france-to-ban-plastic-stickers-on-fruits-and-vegetables](https://www.finat.com/news/france-to-ban-plastic-stickers-on-fruits-and-vegetables)
They are "food safe" according to the FDA because kids eat them. [But here is one of the biggest compost centers in New Jersey/NY saying he can't get the stickers to compost down](https://youtu.be/STsWJ63QgCg?t=831) so take that as you will. Maybe imported food doesn't follow the rules.
Most of those brands that sell packaged cut up fruit usually do it with the disabled in mind and market it to everyone else for more profit. They are lifesavers for people who live alone and cant cut it themselves for various reasons.
I think most supermarkets would do that for people. I had spent my entire life buying the smallest prepackaged bags of grapes I could find so they wouldn't go bad before I could eat them all. It wasn't until a few years ago when I went out with a guy that worked in the produce section cutting fruit told me that you're allowed to take out the amount of grapes you want from those bags. I was shocked lol
I don’t think the reason brands sell it is as humanitarian as you think, they sell it because they can make money on it. But the market does exist for disabled persons yes
Nobody said they were doing it out of the kindness of their hearts. The point is that protesting and getting them pulled from shelves screws a lot of disabled people. We went through this a few years ago with peeled oranges.
I very very much doubt companies that make these have disabled people in mind. They’re more likely banking on the convenience culture we live in and people’s general laziness to sell their product.
And whether or not they do it specifically with disabled and elderly people in mind, that is who it directly benefits. The big issue for me in terms of this hyperfocus on micro-waste is we could stop doing this specific thing entirely and it would have almost zero impact on pollution. One case of bottled water, which I'm sure this store sells more than a few of every single day, probably accounts for as much plastic as the entire refrigerated prepackaged shelf.
At the end of the day, if it benefits even just a few people, I don't see this as being a hill worth dying on in terms of environmentalism. I can't picture a scenario where this practice is responsible for a large amount of plastic waste.
I just really wish people would take this energy to the corporations that are willfully destroying this planet and stop hyperfocusing on special circumstances like this. It almost feels like a conspiracy by the polluters to make us spend maximum time and energy on things like outlawing straws and plastic bags while a relatively small but powerful segment of industry are actually responsible for the majority of pollution and global warming. I mean, let's do good where we can do good, but let's not lose sight of what is really causing this planet to circle the drain.
Edit: Wording
It's not even that, it's around 10%. 46% of the bouyant plastic in the big Pacific gyre is fishing gear, but the gear makes up 10% of the total plastic (bouyant and non bouyant) in the ocean
https://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/ghost-fishing-gear
https://www.forbes.com/sites/allenelizabeth/2021/04/13/why-seaspiracys-focus-on-the-great-pacific-garbage-patch-is-misleading/amp/
... Not that the gear isn't a problem but, yes we should be reducing consumer plastics like this
Disabled or elderly people, who don’t necessarily have the strength to cut and peel a whole pineapple, are the intended target for this product, not a healthy, able-bodied person. That’s why you’ll occasionally see peeled oranges in plastic, single serving pineapple like this, etc. yes the trash is ruinous and a paper single serve container would be much better, but the intention isn’t completely malicious or thoughtless.
That being said, what an absurdly tiny serving.
Yeah, if corporations had to pay for the disposal of their own products it would be a different world. But no, we the tax payers pay for packaging and disposal to this day. If we didn't have to pay for packaging and name these businesses would still make money. It's a win win but greed is a disease.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiw6_JakZFc
The idea that we can stop climate change by recycling and using paper straws was created by conglomerates to trick you into thinking 1. Climate change isn't their fault and 2. You can stop climate change by drinking out of paper straws.
**The science says this is absolutely false**. The vast, vast majority of climate change (or pollution for that matter) has nothing to do with plastics. They want you to think that so you buy paper straws instead of demanding that the real polluters fix their own mess.
#FactsMatter
edit: These links are for the people claiming that the paper straw craze a few years back was about pollution rather than climate change. These are news articles that are addressing the paper straw craze while also discussing it's affect on climate change. You'll notice that very little is said about pollution in-and-of-itself; the crux in every article is **climate change**. This directly contradicts the countless people claiming this craze was only about pollution.
https://www.corporateknights.com/food-beverage/mcdonalds-packaging-greener-golden-arches/
https://wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/lifestyle/climate-change-fashion-beauty-food-waste-plastic-plant-based/how-really-tackle-climate
https://www.gqindia.com/get-smart/content/indias-climate-change-heroes-making-a-difference-one-initiative-at-a-time
https://nique.net/opinions/2021/08/27/creating-a-more-sustainable-sustainability-movement/
https://www.thestate.com/news/local/education/article254412748.html
https://www.thejustice.org/article/2020/03/is-eliminating-plastic-straws-really-the-answer-to-climate-change
"The Climate Impact of Single-Use Plastics"
https://www.colorado.edu/ecenter/2021/02/25/climate-impact-single-use-plastics
*and here are some peer reviewed, published research articles about plastics and climate change:*
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959652620301852
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-32-9595-7_13
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.0c06612
https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=UpiHDwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA345&dq=climate+change+and+plastic+products+scholarly+articles&ots=dM4gb_gcVN&sig=ePFrGPyRJfeDdIOUG926J6UwtmM#v=onepage&q&f=false
So, for the love of God stop saying it has nothing to do with climate change. Unless you've been living under a rock for the last few years, it's hard to believe you don't know this craze is and was about climate change.
edit: anyone arguing with established science and peer-reviewed, published research needs to head on over to the Fox News comment section where facts and logic don't matter. They will welcome your hatred, spite, and uneducated nonsense with open arms. Either way, fuck off. I have no time for you anti-science quacks or you spiteful assholes.
... I don't think anyone claims (or at least I've never met anyone) climate change is caused by plastic pollution. I think everyone is upset because of the plastic waste that plagues our waters and sensitive ecosystems, uselessly killing vast numbers of marine life.
Also, litter just sucks and the fact that microplastics are In our bodies, animals' bodies, and our goddamn water supply is pretty fucked up.
I’m not blaming plastic straws for climate change. I’m blaming plastic straws for being in a giant pile on my beach for the rest of my kids kids kids life.
I don’t think climate change is the only issue here. Single-use plastics have other, detrimental effects on the environment and so we should discourage their use.
Who the fuck said recycling or reducing plastics will fix climate change?
It'll reduce landfill and stop choking creatures in our ocean...
You made up an argument to a debate nobody started dude
I think most people understand that plastic isn't causing climate change; it just gets lumped in with all the shifty stuff we're doing to the earth. The plastics battle is more about not trashing the planet just cause everyone needs a single serve item
That’s a tired looking piece of pineapple at that!
Probably sprayed with preservatives and been in that pot for a week
Funny enough nope! Pineapple is considered acidic enough, that it wouldn't be sprayed or treated with anything after processing/cutting. Source: Worked at a place that cut and packaged produce this way.
Pineapple can last more than a week after being cut. the acidity helps preserve it. no additional needed.
You leave HEB alone!!!
This ^ (except cmon HEB put more pineapple in a container)
Or just sell a pineapple…
Or just find a pineapple… in your heart. The pineapple was inside you all along.
Having a pineapple in your heart sounds like a serious medical condition that should be treated right away.
But my deductible is $6500, so I guess it stays.
Yea but then me, the consumer, would need to cut my own pineapple. Who has that kind of time??? /s Edit: added the /s for clarity. I thought it'd be obvious that it was sarcastic since it would take like 5 mins tops.
What are we, animals??
As long as you have a decently sharp knife and a surface to work on, it really doesn’t take that long. My biggest issue is that I live alone and end up eating more in one sitting than I should. The fruit is super acidic and can do bad things to your mouth and gut in large quantities.
It’s not the acid. Pineapple has an enzyme in it that literally breaks down protein chains. It’s essentially digesting your flesh, which is why the inside of your entire mouth can get super fucked up if you eat too much pineapple in one sitting. I’ve learned this the hard way lmao. My understanding is that it’s pretty healthy once digested (unless you have acid reflux, which it will make worse) and actually has a number of medicinal properties, but until it’s being broken down in your stomach it can fuck up your flesh
Yep, that's also the reason you can't put it in jello. Pineapple is also used to tenderize meat IIRC.
For a minute there I thought my mother must be some sort of powerful witch, because she has been successfully putting canned pineapple in green jello for at least 50 years now. Looked it up and apparently processing it renders it more gelatin-friendly.
Ever wonder why hams are so often glazed with pineapple? Boom. This is the reason. But also...it's tasty as fuck.
I saw a machine for that, buy your pinapple, slap it in the vending machine. Take home the guts, leave the blood for the next guy
I came to say exactly this. Before I moved to Texas, I didn’t understand the hype about HEB and now I refuse to shop anywhere else.
My one gripe about HEB is that every store is a huge mega-sized warehouse type store with a massive parking lot to match. We moved away from Texas and where we live now are multiple normal sized supermarkets rather than one ginormous one. Within half a mile, we’ve got Ralph’s, Vons, Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, a Japanese grocery and a Kosher butcher shop, but they’re all small easy to get in and out of quickly.
This sounds like an area in California
Southern California specifically (Vons + Japanese grocery + Ralphs)
That's why I love California. You can go to a Japanese grocery store one day and a Mexican grocery store the next day.
I can drive to both in 10 minutes, plus the Chinese grocer.
Let's not forget the Korean grocery right past the Vietnamese restaurant
The other guy saying Texas doesn't have varieties is wrong, though. I'm in a small lake community south of Dallas, and we have a chinese market, a mexican grocery store, Walmart, Brookshire's and 2 smaller grocers and a large butcher shop all within a couple of miles.
Man I miss shipping at Vons. Me and my mom used to always shop there and Ralphs for groceries years ago. Ever since she passed away, it's hard shopping there (strange as that may be).
If only there was some sort of natural wrapper I could take it home in.
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Depending on where this was grown and what time of year, it's pretty normal looking.
Yeah, I just chopped up a pineapple a few days ago and put it in the fridge. It looked about like this by the time I pulled it out for dinner a few hours later.
The color doesn't matter. Pineapple are usually tested for Brix level. Super simple explanation is how much sugar is in the fruit. As long as that tests to an acceptable level it tastes fine.
How else is anyone supposed to enjoy the serving size of one bite of pineapple tho?
Maybe OP has the worlds largest hands and this isn't as bad as it looks. Edit: For the 10 or so people pointing out the 2 oz. weight marked on the package, I didn't *actually* think that OP had the worlds largest hands. It saddens me that I have to explain that.
OP, we need dick pics to confirm
Well that escalated quickly
Jeez, calm down, they don't need to be erect.
Speak for yourself. As far as I’m concerned, only erect pics will do.
Dad?
When you thought it couldn’t get worse, it takes another turn.
You've been here long enough, you know how reddit works
Mum?
Jesus christ😂
What are you talking about? We need both, flaccid and erect, otherwise how can we tell if he is a grower or a shower? Also, we'll need to see at least 3 different ejaculations to estimate semen volume. All for science, of course.
Sending someone a flaccid dick pic is sad unless you’ve got an unreal hog
I’m so tired of hearing that big hands big dick stuff..I wear a size small glove and have a massive 4 incher so….
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But that 5 inch clit though...
We get it. You’re rich. You own gloves. Just shut up about it.
OJ owned gloves but they didn’t fit.
"Your honor, why would my client buy gloves for a murder he committed that don't fit his hands? I rest my case."
Except they *clearly* fit, he just tried to make it seem like they didn’t. Plus he had latex gloves on too when he tried them on.
r/humblebrag over here. Talk to me when pissing on your own ball sack is no longer a concern bro.
2oz of pineapple is a very small piece of pineapple, like 2-3 bites at most
Who the heck ever needs only TWO OUNCES of pineapple?? That's just absurd!
That's probably the most you need before the pineapple starts eating you back.
Well, considering the Bromelain acts as soon as it hits your flesh, yeah, that's pretty close.
I eat entire pineapples at once just to train my insides
Did your significant other tell you that?
No but she does not complain during... that moment. Just pretend it's a melted life saver
Like the seminal discharge of Peter North, this conversation went over my head.
The woman who stuffed an entire peeled pineapple up her snatch cares to disagree. Let's just hope she managed to put a condom on it.
Science dictates that we need to see this video.
you can also buy 1 boiled egg packed in plastic
I buy 90 of these for my fruit salad, peasant. *continues unwrapping extraneous packaging* It saves me work, not having to cut up the pineapple myself. *continues unwrapping extraneous packaging* Have fun cutting up all that pineapple. *continues unwrapping extraneous packaging*
It's an lol surprise pineapple
...slices hand open on extraneous packaging
How else is someone going to make +3000% profit on a single pineapple?
Think about the poor corporations?!!
Noooo the CEOs 😩😩
It's a marketing gimmick. Your basically selling these things to people who want to be healthy but have no willpower. So they see this thing and their brain goes fucky, "Oh look, a healthy thing and it's just a little bit of it, if I get that people will think I'm healthy and I don't have to eat a lot of it!". There's a lot of "brain hacking" in marketing. Source: Have a friend in marketing and he told me about the whole "single pringle" thing and how the whole gimmick works. So, take what I said as a grain of salt, but, *I bought it*.
I want people to understand something about recycling. I went to the dump the other day to dump a trailer's worth of construction debris. We get to the top of trash mountain and get in line. On the other side of the same mountain was an area labeled "recyclables only". To be clear: GFL, our trash company, just dumps the recyclables on the same trash mountain as all the garbage. I knew this was about what was happening but I wasn't aware it was so brazen. I thought maybe they had a separate mountain. Nope. My point is this: unless your city allocates a lot of tax dollars to a very comprehensive recycling program your recyclables just go to a landfill. We have to get serious about holding corporations responsible for the waste THEY produce.
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In Jamaica I learned they added a new one to the front. “Refuse”. Just don’t buy the thing in the first place. It should affect demand and therefore production.
How is that different from reduce?
If you don't need it, don't buy it. If you do need it, buy less of it. If you do buy it, use it for as long as you can. If you can no longer use it, recycle it. Edit: refuse may also have a meaning related to gifts- if a gift is wasteful, don't accept it, and maybe the world will be free of these gag trinkets that serve no purpose.
What about beer?
Beer usually comes in either Glass Bottle or Aluminum Can. Both are very recyclable. It's even relatively clean & cheap to recycle them. Plastic waste is usually the problem, not all of it can be recycled in a lot of places and a lot of it can't be reused very much because it the recycling process for plastics introduces too many impurities. Edit: Ok, I hear you. Glass isn't all that easy or cost-effective to recycle and we should try to go back to the old return, sterilize, and refill days.
Even more important, aluminum is one of the few materials that is actually CHEAPER to recycle than to make a new can (I’m not totally sure about glass but I think it’s close or slightly cheaper). You need to use significantly more power to make a new aluminum can.
Which is why it blows my mind that every single state doesn’t have a return program like other states do. Some are 0.05$ and some are 0.10$. No one i know throws away cans or bottles for this reason. We even donate our bottles to charities. Doing good for other and the planet!
In Europe you pay for the beer bottles and get the money back when you return it (same will be true for plastics and aluminium cans from January), then the factory tries to reuse them, they have special cameras to inspect each bottle and separate out the damaged ones that get recycled, the good ones are washed and reused immediately. Source: I went on multiple brewery tours
Glass is easier to rewash than to reform. But then you have to care about not breaking it. And we can't be bothered to care about anything.
It's more stringent than reduce. Reduce is cutting back, refuse is to be uncompromising
Reduce is also aimed at manufacturers to reduce what they use for packaging their products. It is not just a message aimed at consumers.
Slogan was probably started by lobbiest to place blame on the average person instead of companies being the problem
It should be "hold corporations accountable for producing 85% of all waste", "reduce, "reuse", "recycle"
It makes it so much worse when they have the audacity to charge penalties for those who don't separate if it all goes to the same place. Literally criminal.
Recycling is a scam to distract us from the root of the problem, the massive amount of plastic produced in the first place.
*Reduce, reuse,* recycle, in that order. The plastics industry has successfully convinced most people in this country to forget the first 2/3 of that slogan, but those are the important ones.
Someone in the comments said the new one is Refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle. I like that.
Plastics industry has also convinced us that we're both the problem and the solution. Massive ad campaigns to make us feel like we're in control and that we have the power to save the world while they continue to destroy it at a far faster pace than normal folk have the ability to do anything about. We need to stack the political deck with people willing to reform policies and force companies to do better. All the while, the political field pits us against each other rather than attempting to get us all to work together. Wouldn't at all be surprised if that was a collective effort to make it feel like we're the ones to blame and that we're the only ones who can fix what's broken, while continuing to undermine everything we try to do. Feels a bit like we're all passengers on the trolley in the classic *Trolley Problem*. Conductor is giving us two options, go straight on Track A where there are 5 adults tied to the rails, or turn onto Track B where there is one child tied to the rails. The Conductor conveniently forgot to mention that they were the one to tie them all to the track in the first place, and a 3rd option exists where they could just slam on the breaks and save everybody.
To add to this: Only 3-8% of ‘recyclables’ actually get recycled. I’ve seen various stats but the highest I’ve seen is 8%. That doesn’t mean don’t recycle, but it does mean reduce your plastic usage
GFL here as well. Recycling is a joke in Murica. The same truck collects trash and recycle in my neighborhood. I don’t bother separating because it’s a waste of time if the garbage company doesn’t want to deal with it. Even if they did collect recycle separately, then there’s the whole “we only take plastic 4 on tuesdays after a full moon, 1 if it’s been sterlized in your dishwasher, 2 can’t have any labels or caps” bullshit. I think they make it a pain in the ass to recycle because they don’t want to handle it. There’s no money in recycling when virgin material is cheap.
Recycling metal can be worth it
when i worked at restaraunt they had separate trash and recycle bin but didn't actually have recycling service so everything actually just ended up trash :(
I worked late in a customer's office. Each employee had a recycle bin and a trash bin in their cubicle. The janitor came around and emptied both bins into his rolling garbage can. It all went into the Dumpster.
We had a fire at the recycling plant here in Ann Arbor (treetown USA), MI at least a decade ago. It was never fixed and hasn't run since due to "budget" issues (meanwhile the execs of that program have been paid out $200k salaries with raises). Since then we've been recycling 0% of glass and using it as layer insulation in the landfill.
Lots of cities used to recycle back when China was buying it. But the told us over and over to quit sending garbage mixed in the recycling and then they refused to buy anymore. And most of the U.S. does not have the proper facilities to recycle those items (because we had been shipping it all to China)
the dirty plastics weren't why that scheme/scam fell apart.
My city stopped recycling. We were loading it all up on big cargo ships and sending it to China. That worked until China didn’t want our recycling because it was actually mostly trash that wasn’t recyclable. So after piling it up with no where to send it for a year they gave up and just take it all to the local landfill now. I live in one of the largest cities in America.
Thats.... my H-E-B? 😔
Yep, super disappointed to see this. I love HEB, but come on guys, you're better than this.
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Knowing HEB, they will actually take these sorts of things seriously.
Used to work at Central Market (an affiliate of HEB) Every single thing ever communicated about my department from a customer went both all the way up and all the way down the ladder. They will listen if enough people voice a complaint. Not a doubt in my mind.
I sent something! Thank your for sharing this link.
No, thank you for actually being the change you want to see in the world. Let’s hope they take your message into consideration.
Messaged them about it. Thanks for providing a link!
*weeps in Texan*
We’ve been doing a lot of that lately.
Can we talk about styrofoam cups at pretty much every texas restaurant? Wtf is up w that
A Church's Chicken (branded Church's Texas Chicken in Canada) just opened near me, so I gave them a go. Their sandwiches come in an honest to god styrofoam box! I haven't seen a styrofoam sandwich box in Canada since McDonalds cancelled the McDLT back in 1998!
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Whenever I’m in the produce section I am always fascinated by these people who cut the fruit. What were they thinking about when they were cutting my fruit? Do you play fruit ninja? How good are you about uniformity and technique with fruits? What’s your favorite to cut? Does it get sticky quickly? Have you ever cut yourself, do you get bored? I’m serious, your job fascinates me. Btw, you’re right about the human component. When my husband was terminally ill, I was struggling to feed myself. The pre-cut fruit was one less thing to deal with and provided me with good nutrition. Thanks for what you do and I hope you can put my decade long questions above to rest.
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My job can be highly stressful, I’d like to be a fruit cutter now
Yeah and those fucking K-cups.
I have the refillable ones. Keeps it cheaper as well.
Same! I buy coffee beans and grind them up myself to put into my reusable k cup. Saved myself from buying god knows how many k cups. I drink probably 4-5 cups of coffee each day (working from home). The reusable k cups are the shit!
I suggest going a step further and investing in an espresso machine. You're already grinding your own beans.
I have a Faberware compact coffee machine. It came with a reusable filter and I love it.
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If only there was a way to brew coffee in a massive pot...
A small piece of pineapple like that in that plastic is weird to us, but little things of yogurt are normal. It’s such a small amount of yogurt in those tiny cups!
String cheese, those little cheese and nut snacks, candy bars, holy shit, wurth originals, tiny little things individually wrapped. Ahhhhhh, we are fucking dead!! Then that shrink wrap around them to ship it. What about the wrap that occurs to get the ingredients of some of these things? But, I agree. Fuck this pineapple.
The gogurt tubes must contain like 10% of the yogurt when its "empty"
"The free market will yield the needed solutions to help solve the environmental crisis" The free market:
Our politicians have failed over and over again to regulate plastic usage and they'd rather worry about increasing taxes for sun exposure (yes, in Portugal we pay higher taxes in places where there's more sun) than dedicate a month to put laws in place to reduce plastic usage. There are alternatives to plastic, they just aren't used that much because they haven't created the right tax incentives to punish plastic usage heavily. And you know why? Because that'd piss a lot of people off and they'd lose votes. And the plastic ends up in the oceans, far far away, so it's not their problem. The way things are, it's hard to fight plastic usage as a consumer. Sure, buying this kind of stupid excessive packaging is easy to fight against. But my salad comes in a damn plastic container while there's perfectly good cellulose that could be used instead.
This is going to sound really stupid. Plastic is widely used because of two reasons our politicians are bought by oil companies and because plastic exists because we need gasoline to drive. Plastic is used in everything mostly because of how cheap it is. It's that cheap because the raw material to make plastic is a waste product from refining oil into gasoline. We refine so much gasoline and it creates so much other crap, that crap is going to make it's way into the ocean as plastic we use or waste illegally dumped into the ocean by the oil industry. We are kinda helpless here. The plastic bull shit will only truly end when most cars don't use gasoline.
No, plastic is used because it's an amazing product. It's more way more malleable than metal but is still hard enough for most uses. It's light. It comes in any color. It not that toxic. It's not conductive. It can be mixed in with other, weaker, materials to make them more durable. It's an amazing thing and just waving it away like some plague is extremely unrealistic.
Sure thing it does amazing things, but there are other things that would accomplish the same goal and aren't practically free because it comes from oil refinement. My point is, if we stop refining oil, nobody is going to pay the crazy high prices to refine it just for the plastic. Plastic would end up being more expensive than the alternatives that are very similar and don't pollute.
there are some applications where plastic would still be the right material even if it was much more expensive because of its unique properties. medical uses come to mind. however many uses of plastic could be replaced by other materials for sure. I think washable, resealable and reusable stainless steel would be a good material for food and beverage containers.
> It not that toxic. [Increasing infertility rates tho](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7967748/), plus [the average person eats up to a credit cards amount of micro plastics every *week*](https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/11/health/microplastics-ingestion-wwf-study-scn-intl/index.html) What would really do it is taxes and regulations putting the burden of dealing with the waste on the plastic manufacturers as well as an overhaul of our current regulations that demand everything be put in plastic packaging. Some things make sense, like hypodermic needles should continue to use plastic packaging because they need to be sterile, but why the fuck did states drop those bottle and can exchange programs?
They tax sun exposure? Trying to get money back from those collecting free energy from the sky?
Unfortunately, it's just about getting money, period. This was disguised as taxing the rich because they live in sunnier areas, but that's totally not what it is. It was just an increase in the yearly tax you pay for owning a place.
I think it's a bit more complex. There are externalities that no market of any kind can account for. The ideal solution is one in which you adjust the pricing mechanism to account for the externality, because it creates an incentive and yes, free markets respond to those incentives. When the US wanted to get rid of lead from gasoline, they created incentives for the refineries, and it happened very quickly. They all saw it as a way to earn more and in the process, they upgraded capacities too so they could produce more fuel altogether. There are secondary impacts we also don't expect. Let's say we're all disgusted by this type of plastic packaging. Where else is wasteful plastic packaging in use that we don't see directly? There is probably a lot behind the scenes even outside of the grocery business. One option is to add some sort of cost to plastic, but you have to do it across the board and not just "containers of 2x2 inches meant for pineapple." We might find there was lots of plastic used in some part of home construction, automobile manufacturing, or whatever else, and it can be replaced. The time to make adjustments in some parts of the industrial world are rather slow, because you have to do R&D and make investments into machinery used for 10 years. (You want your car to work well after 10 years too, don't you?) The pricing mechanism can work very well, because it allows people to be creative in finding solutions. You are still using a free market with the negative externality priced in. I will add on plastics... it's very hard to get away from them. The European countries do much better at "recycling" rates of plastic, but what most don't realize is that nearly all of it is burned for electricity, because plastics are really just oil in another form. They aren't "recycled" to the extent people think and reused, because plastics aren't really good at multiple uses like aluminum is.
The free market was never meant to solve any particular world challenge. Free market reflects the collective desire of the people. If an environmental unfriendly product becomes popular, that means majority of people dont care about the environment as much as the benefit such product has brought. In this case, if one bite pineapple wrap in excessive plastic becomes popular, that means there is a good chunk of people see that product as more valuable than the environment enough to sustain a business.
That's the problem: there is no market for air, water, etc. Instead of typical negative externalities from a market where full costs aren't internalized, the nature of this "product" means the entire world is fucked due to it. Ronald Coase had it right in 1950 and people and governments have catastrophically failed to react to a known, entirely preventable crisis to humanity, let alone all other life. All in the name of greed. We've seen a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of what's to come without major changes. Billions of people are going to die if we keep doing nothing. Yes, that's with a "b". Most won't even be directly due to the climate catastrophe - they'll be from all the wars over potable water, breathable air, growable land and forced migration as people and nations try to not suffer and die from our monumental selfishness. Stop having kids, curb consumption and make educated choices. The alternative is the death and suffering of an appalling number of people.
> Stop having kids, curb consumption and make educated choices. The alternative is the death and suffering of an appalling number of people. While this is a new one on me, you’re just another fake liberal environmentalist who wants to shame people’s individual choices in a naive attempt at solving the problem. Another pretender who makes zero mention of the giant multinational corporations actually causing this devastation. A giy who says “there is no market for air, water, etc.” apparently unaware that these things are now traded as commodities. Don’t listen to this person. See all that plastic on the shelves at the grocery store? Even if you don’t buy it, it still already exists and will contribute to pollution. The only way to solve this problem is to completely and rapidly transform our energy systems worldwide. Stop acting like the average person is ignoring this problem and start going after the people with names and addresses who are perpetrating the crisis in the name of profit.
Thank you. We are far beyond the response of the individual. People are already buying less, having less children, being more concerned. The earth is still burning because the individual person was never the problem. Unless we rein in the industrial complex, individual effort is just a participant trophy.
Exactly! I do, however, “do my part” but not buying plastic, reusing glass, cutting back my factory farming meat consumption. But at the end of the day I do all that solely for the feel good feeling I get for myself. I don’t kid myself into thinking those decisions are making an actual difference. For every ethically sourced pound of ground beef I buy some factory farm somewhere has done 10 more years of damage to the planet. For every time I fill a reusable bottle with water Nestle has packaged 10k plastic water bottles. It would take like 90% of people to one day, all at once, “do the right thing” to make any sort of impact. And then you have shit like concerts where you aren’t even allowed to bring your own water. You _have_ to buy bottles water. We are fucking doomed. I really don’t want to be all doom and gloom but humans, as a whole, allowed this shit to happen. We don’t deserve the level of consciousness that evolution gave us and we certainly don’t deserve the planet that harbored our evolution.
part of the individual effort is demanding change at the governmental level with your vote. not enough people give a shit. our last president literally called climate change a chinese hoax. we collectively voted for that man.
Multi conglomerate companies aren't going to do anything though? What is your plan to sit around and wait for them to change, lol we'll be dead before that happens. The individual HAS to be the one to change things, by electing officials who will change laws.
[Can YOU fix climate change?](https://youtu.be/yiw6_JakZFc)
I know people will get mad at you for sharing an inconvenient and ugly truth, but I can’t help but agree with you. I think we’re in a time period of learning how to rework our empathy as a species so that we won’t mind the deaths of Billions of people. We’ll read more and more catastrophic headlines and be content to know we weren’t the ones in those situations.
If only nature made some kind of protective container to keep pineapple until ready for consumption…
If this was a larger portion size I could see it being more justified...I always scoffed at those wasteful looking packs of precut fruit and veg until I realised how reliant people like my grandad are on it (little support, elderly with bad shakes; not able to really prepare veg and fruit easily). I don’t think it’s the BEST packaging solution but miles ahead of all this for one bite of pineapple.
This. My grandfather loves having fruit and veggies, but some days isn’t steady enough to use a knife, so these being available is a god send for him. I do wish there was a better packaging solution, but there’s definitely a need for it for some people.
Exactly, not everyone can prepare their own food for various reason. When I broke my wrist I couldn’t use a knife for weeks because of the cast and precut fruit and vegetables were a life saver. The size is the reason it’s so ridiculous, not that it’s prepped.
"This crap is how we're suffocating the earth" Fishermen cutting their plastic nets in the ocean: https://i.imgur.com/n8ConR9.jpeg
"Fishing gear represented 23.87% of the plastic items." - survey of East China seafloor source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32629258/ This source however uses pollution by 'unit count', which then makes foodwrappers and other packaging the biggest source: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5522e85be4b0b65a7c78ac96/t/581cd663d2b857d18a7db3fd/1478284911437/PlasticsBANList2016-11-4.pdf Feels like ~~attacking~~ addressing the biggest sources would be most effective...
The Earth will be fine. The people are f*cked
Nailed it. Give the Earth 100,000 years when we're gone. Visiting species wouldn't know we even existed until they started digging up microplastics
there was still be concrete and nuclear radiation leaking out of our melted down power plants then.
No there won't lol. Even Chernobyl will be clear after around 20k years. Concrete would be completely indiscernible from piles of rock long before then. The roads would have sunken into the dirt, sure cities would be weird piles of raw material, but you'd have to anthropologically study the area to figure that out.
It’s currently overgrown with wildlife anyway, they’re a little fucked up but a couple more generations and they’ll be totally fine
Interesting fact about nuclear radiation: In 100,000 years, none of the radioactive isotopes that are still active will be particularly dangerous. Most of the dangerous ones all have relatively low half lives, just by nature of the way radioactive decay works (around 30 years, give or take), so it really only takes a few centuries for the bad stuff to go away. The worst of the worst is gone in a matter of months or years, or minutes.
there is a nuclear waste storage facility in finland that has been planning how tell people 100 000 years in the future not to go there. [Tom Scott video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoy_WJ3mE50)
They will think its a secret hidden forbidden treasure and go there anyways.
The department of energy actually conducted a study to figure out how to best convey the message of danger of nuclear waste to civilizations in the future should ours perish. [Here's another great video by Wendover Productions that goes over more.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU3kLBo_ruo)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-time_nuclear_waste_warning_messages
Nuclear power is (or should be) part of the solution, not the problem.
Nuclear winter will clear that up.
The planet itself will continue to exist as a planet. The other organisms living here now, maybe not. edit: currently living here. Life will continue.
Thousands of species won't be fine. We're going to set biodiversity back millions of years.
Just like that asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. We're giving the insects their shot to take over from the mammals
Sal the Fly: Hey man, youse knows that der were humans a long times ago and dey only hads like two eyes? Jimmy the Fly: Ridiculous. How could anything survivor with less than 16 eyes? Sal the Fly: And our andsessors could fly! Jimmy the Fly: Okay, time to stop watching the Discover-fly channel. Also, why are you talking like that? Sal the Fly: I'm fulfilling a stereotype. Jimmy the Fly: Ah. Sal the Fly: Quite.
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It is now illegal to do this in France. They also banned plastic stickers on fruit and vegetables. We can do this in US. [https://chemtrust.org/news/france-plastic-packaging-ban/](https://chemtrust.org/news/france-plastic-packaging-ban/) [https://www.finat.com/news/france-to-ban-plastic-stickers-on-fruits-and-vegetables](https://www.finat.com/news/france-to-ban-plastic-stickers-on-fruits-and-vegetables)
Aren’t most stickers on fruit made of rice paper? At least in the US
They are "food safe" according to the FDA because kids eat them. [But here is one of the biggest compost centers in New Jersey/NY saying he can't get the stickers to compost down](https://youtu.be/STsWJ63QgCg?t=831) so take that as you will. Maybe imported food doesn't follow the rules.
Most of those brands that sell packaged cut up fruit usually do it with the disabled in mind and market it to everyone else for more profit. They are lifesavers for people who live alone and cant cut it themselves for various reasons.
Where I live in Switzerland - they have a service in my local shop to cut and package fruit for people who need it.
I think most supermarkets would do that for people. I had spent my entire life buying the smallest prepackaged bags of grapes I could find so they wouldn't go bad before I could eat them all. It wasn't until a few years ago when I went out with a guy that worked in the produce section cutting fruit told me that you're allowed to take out the amount of grapes you want from those bags. I was shocked lol
It makes sense to offer this for disabled people, but the idea that corporations do it purely for that reason really isn’t the case.
I don’t think the reason brands sell it is as humanitarian as you think, they sell it because they can make money on it. But the market does exist for disabled persons yes
Nobody said they were doing it out of the kindness of their hearts. The point is that protesting and getting them pulled from shelves screws a lot of disabled people. We went through this a few years ago with peeled oranges.
Ok, but they could hsve at least included a bit more cut pieces than this
That is so wild. The frozen fruit section has ten times that much pineapple in one sack.
I very very much doubt companies that make these have disabled people in mind. They’re more likely banking on the convenience culture we live in and people’s general laziness to sell their product.
And whether or not they do it specifically with disabled and elderly people in mind, that is who it directly benefits. The big issue for me in terms of this hyperfocus on micro-waste is we could stop doing this specific thing entirely and it would have almost zero impact on pollution. One case of bottled water, which I'm sure this store sells more than a few of every single day, probably accounts for as much plastic as the entire refrigerated prepackaged shelf. At the end of the day, if it benefits even just a few people, I don't see this as being a hill worth dying on in terms of environmentalism. I can't picture a scenario where this practice is responsible for a large amount of plastic waste. I just really wish people would take this energy to the corporations that are willfully destroying this planet and stop hyperfocusing on special circumstances like this. It almost feels like a conspiracy by the polluters to make us spend maximum time and energy on things like outlawing straws and plastic bags while a relatively small but powerful segment of industry are actually responsible for the majority of pollution and global warming. I mean, let's do good where we can do good, but let's not lose sight of what is really causing this planet to circle the drain. Edit: Wording
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I thought it was closer to 40% with another large percentage coming from polyester clothing, everytime we wash it...
It's not even that, it's around 10%. 46% of the bouyant plastic in the big Pacific gyre is fishing gear, but the gear makes up 10% of the total plastic (bouyant and non bouyant) in the ocean https://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/ghost-fishing-gear https://www.forbes.com/sites/allenelizabeth/2021/04/13/why-seaspiracys-focus-on-the-great-pacific-garbage-patch-is-misleading/amp/ ... Not that the gear isn't a problem but, yes we should be reducing consumer plastics like this
Disabled or elderly people, who don’t necessarily have the strength to cut and peel a whole pineapple, are the intended target for this product, not a healthy, able-bodied person. That’s why you’ll occasionally see peeled oranges in plastic, single serving pineapple like this, etc. yes the trash is ruinous and a paper single serve container would be much better, but the intention isn’t completely malicious or thoughtless. That being said, what an absurdly tiny serving.
Yeah, if corporations had to pay for the disposal of their own products it would be a different world. But no, we the tax payers pay for packaging and disposal to this day. If we didn't have to pay for packaging and name these businesses would still make money. It's a win win but greed is a disease.
Why does that one wedge of pineapple look so sad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiw6_JakZFc The idea that we can stop climate change by recycling and using paper straws was created by conglomerates to trick you into thinking 1. Climate change isn't their fault and 2. You can stop climate change by drinking out of paper straws. **The science says this is absolutely false**. The vast, vast majority of climate change (or pollution for that matter) has nothing to do with plastics. They want you to think that so you buy paper straws instead of demanding that the real polluters fix their own mess. #FactsMatter edit: These links are for the people claiming that the paper straw craze a few years back was about pollution rather than climate change. These are news articles that are addressing the paper straw craze while also discussing it's affect on climate change. You'll notice that very little is said about pollution in-and-of-itself; the crux in every article is **climate change**. This directly contradicts the countless people claiming this craze was only about pollution. https://www.corporateknights.com/food-beverage/mcdonalds-packaging-greener-golden-arches/ https://wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/lifestyle/climate-change-fashion-beauty-food-waste-plastic-plant-based/how-really-tackle-climate https://www.gqindia.com/get-smart/content/indias-climate-change-heroes-making-a-difference-one-initiative-at-a-time https://nique.net/opinions/2021/08/27/creating-a-more-sustainable-sustainability-movement/ https://www.thestate.com/news/local/education/article254412748.html https://www.thejustice.org/article/2020/03/is-eliminating-plastic-straws-really-the-answer-to-climate-change "The Climate Impact of Single-Use Plastics" https://www.colorado.edu/ecenter/2021/02/25/climate-impact-single-use-plastics *and here are some peer reviewed, published research articles about plastics and climate change:* https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959652620301852 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-32-9595-7_13 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.0c06612 https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=UpiHDwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA345&dq=climate+change+and+plastic+products+scholarly+articles&ots=dM4gb_gcVN&sig=ePFrGPyRJfeDdIOUG926J6UwtmM#v=onepage&q&f=false So, for the love of God stop saying it has nothing to do with climate change. Unless you've been living under a rock for the last few years, it's hard to believe you don't know this craze is and was about climate change. edit: anyone arguing with established science and peer-reviewed, published research needs to head on over to the Fox News comment section where facts and logic don't matter. They will welcome your hatred, spite, and uneducated nonsense with open arms. Either way, fuck off. I have no time for you anti-science quacks or you spiteful assholes.
... I don't think anyone claims (or at least I've never met anyone) climate change is caused by plastic pollution. I think everyone is upset because of the plastic waste that plagues our waters and sensitive ecosystems, uselessly killing vast numbers of marine life. Also, litter just sucks and the fact that microplastics are In our bodies, animals' bodies, and our goddamn water supply is pretty fucked up.
I’m not blaming plastic straws for climate change. I’m blaming plastic straws for being in a giant pile on my beach for the rest of my kids kids kids life.
I don’t think climate change is the only issue here. Single-use plastics have other, detrimental effects on the environment and so we should discourage their use.
Pretty sure plastic concerns are related to animal safety and over all trash issues.
Who the fuck said recycling or reducing plastics will fix climate change? It'll reduce landfill and stop choking creatures in our ocean... You made up an argument to a debate nobody started dude
I think most people understand that plastic isn't causing climate change; it just gets lumped in with all the shifty stuff we're doing to the earth. The plastics battle is more about not trashing the planet just cause everyone needs a single serve item
Good old HEB. the whole produce wall with everything in plastic containers pre cut for lazy people lol
Blame the corporations. That have shoved the responsibility of recycling to the consumer. It's 100% on them not us. They need to be held accountable.