I could have titled this as just waste created by living daily, but wanted to focus it down a little more. I feel kind of like im the crazy one that sees this insane waste when eating at restaurants, wrappers, cups, drink carriers going right in the trash, billions per day. Its insanity if you think about it.
I’ve at least been never using cup lids or straws and never taking drink carriers when theyre offered (what a massive waste of cardboard!). Then most of the waste is at least paper from the bag and wrapper. Still not great. And yes, I know the solution would be “cook at home!” But that also wastes a lot of freshwater from dish washing, and sometimes it’s just nice to eat somewhere else.
I wonder if this is just something you notice as you get older. Then again older peiple probably waste the most, but I’m just guessing.
By all means. But chain restaraunts are owned by the corpos. If you want to take power from the corpos you need to stop giving them your money.
I mean, the flour and eggs you buy to cook at home also come from corpos. I have a garden but there’s no way it could sustain someone without also using grocery.
Well King Arthur, the flour company, is employee owned.
We’re stuck between a rock and a hard place with a bad system but there are choices we can make about how fully it controls us.