Manufacturing plastics is a highly emissive process. The world needs to shrink production rapidly to stay within the 1.5 °C global temperature rise.
  • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Not excusing it, but food packagers care about durability of goods, and cleanliness of goods, in that order.

    They don’t want to lose money on lost goods, and they don’t want to end up in the news for a sanitation issue

    Any environmental concern comes as a different third to those 2 topics.