Environment

   Do not buy cardboard cups, which decompose in 3-4 months, and bamboo? If you think more globally (not cups and bags) you will understand that the problem is not in the use of plastic at all, but in the fact that there is no waste management. The difference in the density of plastic and glass is between 2. 5-3 times, if we switch to only glass bottles, it means that instead of 1 truck will travel 3, is what exactly do you keep? The media talks non-stop about plastic, why not talk about disposing of batteries (where do you throw them?) And electronics? What about cigarette butts that break down in 100 years, have you seen any form of organization?

   up to 1 This is strange for the batteries and for me. How many times have I run out of batteries and the packaging says not to throw them in regular buckets, but nowhere does it say where to throw them. And in the end, I don't know where to throw it. I've seen such boxes in stores, but they are rare and to run for example on the other side of town to throw 2 batteries will not work. For the plastic, I also wondered if it is so difficult to recycle that they make me carry the same torn bag every time I shop and they will pay me 30-80 cents each time if I don't carry a bag. The other is for cars. In Germany, these diesels were a big thorn in their side, and the other day I read that they were measuring emissions, and it turned out that without diesels, the air was actually dirtier. Even for the first time since I don't know how many years there has been an increase in car emissions. Then the other nonsense - they would have switched to electric cars. It was more environmentally friendly, there were no gases. But no one mentions how mass production of batteries for such cars would affect. Imagine all the few billion cars if they run on electricity, how many batteries there are. And is the production of electricity from thermal power plants environmentally friendly, and how will these billions of batteries be recycled and depreciated? Or they would increase excise taxes on fuels by I don't know what percentage, because the air was dirty. And by what percentage will my air become cleaner by increasing my excise tax - with a hole in a pretzel. So it does not have a clear organization, but we should not have used plastic, we should have paid eco taxes and excises. All for me is brainwashing. Because it's one thing to say, "We need money and we're going to raise your taxes," it's another to say, "Abe,

   Yes, I will stop drinking my coffee because you want me to protect the environment or I will bring some shitty cup with me to make my coffee in it. Nonsense.

   I support №2 and I want to ask the author how exactly she protects nature by wearing a bamboo cup, washing it, doesn't she spend water and faith and will she use it for life, that is, for how long will she buy a new bamboo cup? Is water polluted with faith more useful for nature than a paper cup? And how can bartenders put the tall bamboo cup under the coffee machine and how do they estimate exactly how much water to release so that its coffee doesn't become too rare? How can they explain to their other customers why your tea is in a decorated cup and theirs is in a plain plastic one? "How else can I protect the environment?" by disposing of your waste separately hoping it will be recycled! However, I have personally witnessed the truck take a glass and plastic pot and dump it in the general dump, people just think that someone is recycling Bulgarian plastic garbage from the buckets. With such savings from cups, plastic boxes, bags, nature is not protected! It seems that recycling pollutes nature so much that it is not profitable. Because in order to recycle plastic, so much combustible energy is burned that it doesn't make sense, without mentioning the fact that energy is still used for the production of recycling machines. Just count how much fuel and electricity. 1. Collection of plastic waste 2. Sorting by type of plastic and color 3. Crushing large pieces with shredders 4. Washing and drying 5. Grinding with mills 6. melting 7. granulation Do not forget that the very arrival of workers to work in the recycling plant it uses fuel for their cars. All of the above consumes so much fuel and pollution that it makes more sense to produce new cups of oil.