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Bob LeFridge :tinoflag:

NZ's RW, anti-science, anti-fact coalition govt have rolled back yet another environmental protection -- a law due to kick in mid-2025 banning all PVC & polystyrene food & drink packaging.

Ironically it was announced by Penny Simmonds as "Minister for the Environment" & backed by cabinet.

She says she's "working with the packaging industry to find better solutions."

An industry which has already spent three years preparing for the incoming bans.

newsroom.co.nz/2025/04/16/sing

Newsroom · Single-use plastic bans quietly shelvedBy Fox Meyer
#NZPol#Plastic
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Farhad

No matter how hard I try, I can't go fully plastic free.

Since #France doesn't #recycle many of the single use plastic items like bags or wrapping material, I push them hard into a milk bottle before dropping it into recycle bin.

This is 3 months of #plastic items from different packages I've used. despite using reusable shopping bags buying in bulk with my own fabric based bags and not buying double, triple or quadruple packed items

Milk bottle almost filled with plastic wrapping material and bags to be recycled.
#plastifree#noplastic
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Farhad
No matter how hard I try, I can't go fully plastic free.

Since #France doesn't #recycle many of the single use plastic items like bags or wrapping material, I push them hard into a milk bottle before dropping it into recycle bin.

This is 3 months of #plastic items from different packages I've used. despite using reusable shopping bags buying in bulk with my own fabric based bags and not buying double, triple or quadruple packed items

#plastifree #noplastic
Milk bottle almost filled with plastic wrapping material and bags to be recycled.
#noplastic
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Airplanista 🇺🇦

@paul_ipv6 @ai6yr Ah yes, old metal products. Like the metal Coleman ice chest shown here. My family acquired it in the early 60s, it was bulletproof and kept things cold as well as a $500 Yeti. Some assbite stole it from our campsite up near Florence Lake in the Sierras in the 1980s. They do not make them like this any more. #Plastic

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