• Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    7 months ago

    For me the biggest thing that shattered my worldview was seeing how many people don’t even think about this. It never crosses their mind how the things they use will persist, once it’s out of their hand it’s out of mind.

    Every piece of plastic, every coffee cup, garbage bags, I think about where it will go. How it’ll sit there for hundreds of years just so I could have a cup of coffee, or so it could hold trash, or be packing material.

    I can’t fix it myself, but just be aware of it people, just think about where it goes. How long it will be there.

    For cups now I take my own. Garbage bags I use the compostable ones. Just have to think about it a bit more.

  • TheObviousSolution@kbin.melroy.org
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    7 months ago

    In another timeline, single celled organisms warning their brethren about how their use of calcification processes will result in contamination that lasts forever.

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    “That thing that can be consumed cleanly in the right equipment return 95% of the energy used to make it” – also styrofoam