#21

yeah. there’s a way of doing it though. i think i have an overly sensitive smugness radar

#22

Not sure about the organised protest bit, but I don’t see a problem with leaving excessive packaging at the supermarket.

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#23

People can do both. And pressure to do something about the latter often comes about from people doing the former. And people doing the former often comes about from hearing others tell them how they’re doing it.

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#24

it’s like you’ll see sometimes that concepts have to be explained to people, eg that packaging/products that may seem excessive or wasteful to someone might be a comparative necessity for other people.

#25

@meow thought you’d be right into this. don’t you hate plastic?

#26

Nah I reckon that’s not ok, eat some prunes.

:joy::joy::joy:

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#28

you know what, i think it’s the ‘zero’ that really irks me. you couldn’t just go for ‘a small amount’ of waste, no it has to be absolutely zero. imagine the arrogance of thinking you can go through life creating zero waste. do they go to the toilet?
zero waste!

#29

I think that person is me.
Hi! :wave:

#30

who cares if thats not your job

#31

I AM right into this but I feel like it needs to be more of an organised situation rather than turn up and dump all your plastic shit out there. Like who is gonna clean that up? Are the staff gonna be like “this bunch of nut jobs came in and emptied all the packaging out” and then the’ll be like OK WE AT TESCOS NOW OFFER THIS SERVICE
erm no probs not

BUT I am all for large supermarkets having the loose items like grains etc. I have to go to fucking planet organic in muswell hill to do this and probably waste more than I gain from in petrol? I dunno

#32

maybe they recycle their poo as well ? turn it into something art maybe, or Shart if you like.

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#33

Hugely agree.

#34

it’s not, you don’t come across that way to me at all. there’s a subtle quality to it that’s hard to explain.

#35

Zero waste is impossible.

#37

but if you work in a shop then keeping the shop clean probably is part of your job

:man_shrugging:

#38

why not? if enough people started doing it they might idk

#39

this is like when people dont do their washing up in the office and think the cleaner will do it for them

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#40

Cause it would need more of a government backed campaign to create a law that requires large supermarkets to provide recycling facilities in store for all their packaging on items they sell.

I don’t think it’s as simple as tesco just providing mass recycling facilities.

#41

i know as someone who worked in supermarkets that most of these businesses would sooner dump perfectly good food than let an employee take it home, or even bring it to a homeless shelter. they don’t give a fuck.

as in, absolutely agree that they need laws to make them do things.

the amount of stuff that used to get chucked into the baler at the end of the night (no separation of cardboard) would bring tears to your eyes.

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#42

don’t even get me fucking started on this