• SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    So we have all this plastic waste because people can’t be bothered to operate a can opener?

    • Ech@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      Basically. Convenience pushes most, if not all, of the packaging changes we see. Plastic has been very good at accomplishing the things people want to be done with packaging at a low, immediate cost to the user. Turns out the long term cost is much more drastic.

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      9 months ago

      Because people like you can’t be bothered to respect their fellow humans in terms of use case design.

      But yes. Until we find a way to use can openers to keep small amounts of ketchup sterile, it’s because people can’t be bothered to use a can opener.

      • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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        9 months ago

        Sure there’s a use case for aluminum cans and and a use case re-usable containers too.

        But there’s a lot of people like that think that finding a use case that requires plastic for one thing proves that plastic is needed for everything. This is a fallacy.