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[Mike K.]

Whatever happened to all those green bikes?

[Nparker]

Whatever happened to all those green bikes?

I believe they are part of a new reef system in the Inner Harbour.

[todd]

Whatever happened to all those green bikes?

and the free blue bikes.

[sebberry]

I bought a bunch of wireless phone chargers for desks at work last week.  They arrived, each charging pad was wrapped in plastic.  Each AC/USB adapter to power them was wrapped in plastic.  Each of the USB adapters was also in a little plastic tray inside the cardboard box with the user manual inside a little plastic sleeve.

 

But I can't have a multi-use plastic checkout bag for my groceries?

[Matt R.]

Whenever I buy cutlery or ramekins for work every, single, one is wrapped in its own little bag, which is in a box, which is taped shut and wrapped in plastic. Presumably it’s to keep them from getting scratched during shipping, but what’s the difference? After a few uses, tossed in the presoak, banged around on the cutlery tray, put through the dishwasher 20 times, they all look the same. We aren’t talking fine silver here, either.

Mike, I think that green bike is still on my bike rack in fulford.

Matt.

[Victoria Watcher]

Whenever I buy cutlery or ramekins for work every, single, one is wrapped in its own little bag, which is in a box, which is taped shut and wrapped in plastic. Presumably it’s to keep them from getting scratched during shipping, but what’s the difference? After a few uses, tossed in the presoak, banged around on the cutlery tray, put through the dishwasher 20 times, they all look the same. We aren’t talking fine silver here, either.

 

but most/many people would return them.  you could say the same about a brand new car, it's going to get a few tiny scratches, wear on the interior, tire wear even in the first week or two  - but you would not accept delivery that way.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 30 October 2021 - 04:01 PM.

[Matt R.]

These are forks that cost a dollar, not a new car. Next?

Matt.

[Victoria Watcher]

maybe there are some seconds/bulk packed loose that are only 97 cents, dunno.

 

plastic is cheap.  35 cents a pound.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 30 October 2021 - 04:19 PM.

[sebberry]

Also unboxed several keyboards, mice and webcams the other day.  This is nothing new, but every single piece of glossy black plastic on any of these items is wrapped a protective plastic film.  Obviously it's to keep them from getting scratched, but these are truly single-use plastics that are often cut into pretty small pieces (think that one inch long bit of shiny black plastic around your webcam lens, or the space between the arrow keys and page up/down buttons on your keyboard).  Every single bit of it - plastic wrapped.  And then the whole thing is in a bag, in a box with another plastic bag around it.  

[Victoria Watcher]

https://thisisplasti...bout-landfills/

 

how about that glass!  i think the sun will burn out sooner.

 

 

 

[Sparky]

We were out and about today soaking in the beauty of this gorgeous island of ours and we came across this rather handsome looking shitter at Spectacle Lake.

Mrs. Sparky asked me what was the outhouse like? Spotless I said, clean as a whistle, nice paper dispenser and a hand sanitizer dispenser. So she gave it a go.



On her way out she hollers “Did you see this?”

Seb I think you are being denied your god given right to help build a nation with delightful crappers. We are going to need a lot of plastic bags if we hope to keep up with the obvious demand.

[Mike K.]

Lol, amazing.

[lanforod]

Those are what are replacing the old outhouses all over Vancouver Island, and maybe even all over BC. Pretty decent for a hole in the ground crapper.

[spanky123]

Seb I think you are being denied your god given right to help build a nation with delightful crappers. We are going to need a lot of plastic bags if we hope to keep up with the obvious demand.
 

 

That was my thought, with the ban on anything plastic coming in Victoria then we will not be able to get anymore cappers.

Edited by spanky123, 01 November 2021 - 08:29 AM.

[todd]

Those are what are replacing the old outhouses all over Vancouver Island, and maybe even all over BC. Pretty decent for a hole in the ground crapper.

The more flushable ones the better, gives me the creeps sitting on an open hole in the ground

I suppose a rat is flexible enough to get up a flushable toilet as well.

Edited by todd, 01 November 2021 - 11:51 AM.

[phx]

Bugs across globe are evolving to eat plastic

 

Problem solved.

[Victoria Watcher]

Canadians will need to find alternatives for plastic straws and grocery bags by the end of the year as the federal government puts the final motions in place to ban some single-use plastics.

 

Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault and a number of other ministers and Liberal MPs will lay out the plastics ban in a series of events across the country today.

 

Guilbeault is also expected to discuss plans to mandate a minimum amount of recycled content in other plastic items as the government seeks to create a bigger market for recycled plastic in Canada.

 

The draft regulations to ban six plastic items were published in December and the government has to have at least a six-month-long phase-in period once the final regulations are published this month.

 

 

 

https://www.cbc.ca/n...tdown-1.6494379

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 20 June 2022 - 05:19 AM.

[LJ]

[Nparker]

Since when did it matter
if virtue signaling actually made a difference?

[Mike K.]

The third floor of the museum will become a plastic recycling plant, I’m hearing.