cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/5594090

Was reading new package, they removed plastics and now they brag about it.

I have issues in my life because of that. As a consumer I have to watch about my carbon footprint and recycle plastics, can even get fined if I don’t.

So why would I praise them if they could do it long time ago and see how much plastic they produced each year.

I never asked to use plastics

  • @[email protected]English
    9•1 year ago

    What a meaningless statistic. If you reuse a plastic bag, that could also be 40,000 km of plastic, just atoms thick

    • @[email protected]OP
      2•1 year ago

      I have different package at home.

      "By removing the plastic from our packaging we will save the equivalent of about 30 million plastic bags annually*.

      *based on 2019 sales volume in Europe, Middle East and Africa and a 10g plastic bag that is 45cm long"

      so this doesn’t even include Asia, Americas and Australia

  • @[email protected]English
    3•1 year ago

    what was stopping them?

    It was cheaper than the alternative and people didn’t care as much as they do today

  • @nxfsi
    1•1 year ago

    Turns out oil (needed to make plastic) is becoming more expensive.