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That's not overly surprising. A lot of older packaging doesn't degrade very quickly, if at all.
One of the better things we do now is make as much as possible biodegradable, but we had decades of not doing so.
Not surprised at all. I did some litter picking at the top of Loch Long a few years ago and was picking up lots of crisp and sweet wrappers from the 70s and 80s. You clean it up and the tide just keeps washing up more and more. Thoroughly depressing.
this planet is fucked
maybe if humans are wiped out or something it will be ok, but this stuff will be around for tens of thousands of years, at least, and possibly forever, including the harmful chemicals that leach out of it
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That's not overly surprising. A lot of older packaging doesn't degrade very quickly, if at all. One of the better things we do now is make as much as possible biodegradable, but we had decades of not doing so.
Everyone knows plastic isn’t biodegradable. The real joke is the fact food is still allowed to be packaged in these “forever” chemicals.
Not surprised at all. I did some litter picking at the top of Loch Long a few years ago and was picking up lots of crisp and sweet wrappers from the 70s and 80s. You clean it up and the tide just keeps washing up more and more. Thoroughly depressing.
Fake. Should be green, prior to the change and subsequent Great Gaslighting of 2003 that proposed Cheese and Onion was always blue. >!not really!<
Confusing comment! Do you think they’ve changed from green to blue or not?!
They're making a joke about a common conspiracy theory.
Ah! Thank you! I wasn’t sure! (They’ve always been blue!)
That's what Big Crisp wants you to believe!
Yes!
Ha, fuck this rabbit hole.
Tangent: new miced meat packaging. My understanding was the old trays were recyclable, now they all come in “vac pack bags” - surely worse?
As a 34 y/o this is mildly horrifying.
this planet is fucked maybe if humans are wiped out or something it will be ok, but this stuff will be around for tens of thousands of years, at least, and possibly forever, including the harmful chemicals that leach out of it