what the hell is wrong with america:two steps forward, one step back
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That's really odd, especially for supposedly 'environmentally concience' hippy companies like Tom's of Maine...but hey...at least they print tips like how to recycle the tube when you're done with it on the box the tube comes in!profro said:
Oh I use a brush to wash the dishes too! AND I put it in the dishwasher to clean it...do this...get TWO brushes...one to wash, one to use!Silver said:
Works out just dandy and you ALWAYS have a clean brush to scrub the pots and pans with!
Get a dog. My pup gets to lick my plates clean that way no food ever goes into the sink. Washing the dishes is just killing doggy germs.biggins said:
Westy said:
yah...and then he can make a compost outta the dog poo for his vegetable garden! Talk about giving back to the earth and being resourceful!
Westy said:
Did you know a dogs mouth is cleaner than a humans mouth?
I certainly do not have to fertilize my lawn.dh girlie said:yah...and then he can make a compost outta the dog poo for his vegetable garden! Talk about giving back to the earth and being resourceful!
Humans mouths are nasty. Dog breath is kind of bad but could you image how bad your breath would be if you only brushed your teeth once a year.dh girlie said:
Waaa, waaa, waaa...
If there wasn't a market for this junk it wouldn't be around long.
The beauty of America is that if you want to spend your $'s on a disposable toilet brush you can... and if you want to wipe yer butt with twigs and leaves... well.. you can do that too...
If there wasn't a market for this junk it wouldn't be around long.
The beauty of America is that if you want to spend your $'s on a disposable toilet brush you can... and if you want to wipe yer butt with twigs and leaves... well.. you can do that too...
N8 said:
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
The reason toothpaste and stuff like that comes in a box is so it can be stacked.
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Best post ever!!!!!Ciaran said:
mad props, bro.
Good gravy, how in the h3ll can we live if our toothpaste isn't stacked in box shaped order.Echo said:
Oh the humanity....
The one ray of hope is that alot of this packaging can be recycled. I'm amazed at how much stuff I can recycle these days.
Thank you... thankyouverymuch. I'll be here all week. Don't forget to tip your waitress on the way out, but please, pick her back up.loco said:Best post ever!!!!!
Because you only put your hand on a wet flusher handle once. It's nasty. And what liquid is it really wet with? I hope it's water.I Are Baboon said:
I work in a hospital, germs are everywhere! I use the gel alcohol hand sanitizer stuff. Flu season around here sucks. Old people sneezing and coughing everywhere. ACK!
the first two are because they stack better on the shelf and that is part of the marketing.profro said:
the last one is easy. half the cars leak oil and you need to keep a couple of quarts in the back seat so you can top off the engine every few weeks.
HIPPIES, GET OUT!!!!
Get with the program, start consuming mass quantities of everything. start skidding on the trails and riding over new growth. Take the long way home in your car, to burn more fuel, don't recycle.....
your fighting a loosing battle. until it becomes profitable to 'save the earth', we as humans will continue to 'destroy it'.
the only solution is to get the human race out of this place......(destroy.all)
Echo said:
They could start making rectangular toofpaste tubes...then they wouldn't need boxes and they could still stack it!
I'm pretty stoked that they came out with boxes of sugar that are like milk cartons...so much easier to store. and if you're baking something it pours much better'n it does from a bag.
Yeah...cats do that...just nasty.pnj said:our cat licks it's own butt hole.
or is it, butt whole?
I think it's more about how a grocery store needs to keep 100 tubes each of 30 different types of toothpaste somewhat organized. Not to mention ease of inventory and ease of shipping.profro said:Good gravy, how in the h3ll can we live if our toothpaste isn't stacked in box shaped order.
Oh the humanity....
It would be great if products used less packaging, and there are lots of situations where less packaging or more intelligent packaging could be used... but I don't think toothpaste is very high on the list
Get rid of the tube. Square cardboard toothpaste thingies are the wave of the future!Echo said:I think it's more about how a grocery store needs to keep 100 tubes each of 30 different types of toothpaste somewhat organized. Not to mention ease of inventory and ease of shipping.
It would be great if products used less packaging, and there are lots of situations where less packaging or more intelligent packaging could be used... but I don't think toothpaste is very high on the list
Speaking of packaging, sometimes it's needed. OB tampons come to mind there...
I have a friend who has a dog. All dogs lick thier asses. She lets her dog lick her mouth. Yet when she cuts up chicken or does anything in the kitchen she goes through a strange and elaborate process of cleaning. I went camping with her last year and she had to drive to town to use a hotel bathroom instead of the outhouse. Yet she lets the dog who licks his ass kiss her on the mouth. Go figure.....jdcamb
That and so the customer can see that the package is sealed when they buy it. Having a tube of something that you are going to put in your mouth that has no seal on it would probably not be very appealing to most. I wouldn't be at all suprised if there are laws about consumer product containers being sealed. You could do one of those plastic neck seals like on a Snapple bottle, but I'd rather have a carboard box that will break down in the environment. Stupid waste? Yes. Necessary in some strange way? Probably.Echo said:
What about a bottled drinks, milk, juice, etc.? It goes in your mouth and has the same basic operation... twist off the cap and put it in your mouth. They aren't in boxes.Lex said:
Does she lick asses?jdcamb said:
Ever try stacking tooth paste tubes!?!profro said:
Did you know that dogs asses are cleaner than humans asses?Westy said:
Never thought about it. But my dog never seems to have a problem with dingleberries.dh girlie said:
I'm pretty sure if you go and look they all have some sort of sealing device. Milk has the little pull tab around the lower edge of the pop off cap, and juice generally has some sort of neck ring that needs to be broken to get the bottle open. Also, these sorts of containers are usually vacuum sealed as well. If you went to drink a Snapple and it didn't make the popping noise as the vacuum was released you would know right away that it had been tampered with.profro said:What about a bottled drinks, milk, juice, etc.? It goes in your mouth and has the same basic operation... twist off the cap and put it in your mouth. They aren't in boxes.
The point I was making with my original post was that you could have some sort or plastic seal over the cap to eliminate the need for the box. Would you rather have another piece of plastic out there or a cardboard box that can at least be recycled?
Consumer products are just the tip of the iceberg. You know where all the toxins from high tech manufacturing go? There was a radio spot about it on NPR yesterday. It's expensive to deal with in this country so big tech companies simply put it in barrels and sell it overseas to "recyclers". Ya know who these "recyclers" are? This is no joke:
Somali warlords. They get paid bank and then they stack the barrels up near the beach somewhere until a tsunami hits and just washes it out to sea. Awesome!
Or in other African companies these "recyclers" are tearing apart the computers and cooking the chips to get trace gold out. This creates massive amounts of new toxins that they simply dump into the village water ways.
This **** just goes on and on.
I am becoming increasingly disillusioned with this country. Corporate greed is destroying everything - we just don't see it because we are insulated from this crap and don't ever have to see it firsthand. I'm just glad I'm living now and am not one of the unfortunate members of future generations that are going to inherit this crap when the **** really hits the fan.
Somali warlords. They get paid bank and then they stack the barrels up near the beach somewhere until a tsunami hits and just washes it out to sea. Awesome!
Or in other African companies these "recyclers" are tearing apart the computers and cooking the chips to get trace gold out. This creates massive amounts of new toxins that they simply dump into the village water ways.
This **** just goes on and on.
I am becoming increasingly disillusioned with this country. Corporate greed is destroying everything - we just don't see it because we are insulated from this crap and don't ever have to see it firsthand. I'm just glad I'm living now and am not one of the unfortunate members of future generations that are going to inherit this crap when the **** really hits the fan.
Oh I forgot - a lot of people pay to have their computers recycled because they are trying to do the consciensous thing and then the companies just ship them off to Africa for another go around in the ****-up-the-world endless cycle. That's right, we are actually being decieved into this **** and paying to make the world even worse just to line the pockets of a few greedy ****s even more!
I'd like to see all of corporate America in jail
I'd like to see all of corporate America in jail
Time to bust out my favorite Larry Summers quote (current president of Harvard) from when he was chief economist at the world bank:Ridemonkey said:Oh I forgot - a lot of people pay to have their computers recycled because they are trying to do the consciensous thing and then the companies just ship them off to Africa for another go around in the ****-up-the-world endless cycle. That's right, we are actually being decieved into this **** and paying to make the world even worse just to line the pockets of a few greedy ****s even more!
I'd like to see all of corporate America in jail
"The measurements of the costs of health impairing pollution depends on the foregone earnings from increased morbidity and mortality. From this point of view a given amount of health impairing pollution should be done in the country with the lowest cost, which will be the country with the lowest wages. I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that."
Here is the translation from economist-speak:
"Poor people don't produce as much. Therefore, in order to maximize production, we should dump waste in poor countries because if they get sick we don't have to pay for expensive treatment and if they die we don't lose as much productivity."
Yeah - quit driving an internal combustion vehicle. And try to convince everyone else to. If not, STFU.biggins said:
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yeah what's up with those things??? They could use an applicator as well...You do know how one has to uhhh...USE one of those?Silver said:
Jeezus. Who cares? That's why nature invented macrophages.dh girlie said:
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what in tarnation is a macrophage?SkaredShtles said:Jeezus. Who cares? That's why nature invented macrophages.
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OK... that's it....
you guys have to STOP calling "America" to the United States..... why do you keep doing that.....?
america is the name of the continent... you are just another part of it.... deal with it..
now, back to topic
It seems like all this "disposable stuff" fever is increasing mostly in the united states and other "rich" countries.... the main reason for that is tha it will save the user the work of cleaning the reusable stuff.... of course in a long term is more expensive to use disposable, but it doesnt seem to be an inoirtant factor when adquisition power of the consumers is high....
and it does piss me off as well to see everybody just dumping everything to the garbage.... that a material is recyclable doesnt justify using it the first time....
you guys have to STOP calling "America" to the United States..... why do you keep doing that.....?
america is the name of the continent... you are just another part of it.... deal with it..
now, back to topic
It seems like all this "disposable stuff" fever is increasing mostly in the united states and other "rich" countries.... the main reason for that is tha it will save the user the work of cleaning the reusable stuff.... of course in a long term is more expensive to use disposable, but it doesnt seem to be an inoirtant factor when adquisition power of the consumers is high....
and it does piss me off as well to see everybody just dumping everything to the garbage.... that a material is recyclable doesnt justify using it the first time....
Because it's really hard to stack toothpaste tubes efficiently on a grocery shelf.profro said:
See above.
Because it's a pain in the ass to carry a 5-quart jug of oil in your car to fill up with 1/2 quart every 3000 miles.
Geez, guys. This is not that hard to figure out.....
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