Single use plastic packaging is a scam!
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- čas přidán 20. 08. 2024
- This video is the conclusion to an experiment I started in 2020, proving that plastic packaging is ineffective for storing food.
Single use plastic packaging is one of the biggest threats we face today. Nano-plastics are now in everything we eat. They're in the water we drink. They're in the human bloodstream. The long term health effects are just being studied now, but will be with us for centuries.
They are completely unnecessary. Better technologies exist, and have for decades.
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You are so right. We've been had, fooled into compliance with a heinous plan. Thank you, as always, for your video sharing your good sense. (Reminds me of the scene from the movie "The Graduate." "One word-- plastics.")
Absolutely love that you said "we're being taught we're inherently polluting and it's rubbish"! So very true! I absolutely hate the fact that this is pushed on people, and that foolish people who've never even dreamed of a life outside of modernity go along with it! Still one of the best channels on yt.
Thank you so much!
I totally agree. I don't even need your experiment to prove it (but probably there are others who need it): plastic packaging is rubbish! Yesterday I happened to be in a supermarket looking for 'healthy' fruit-and-nut-bars ... I saw they were in a plastic bag, and inside the bag they were individually packed in more plastic! So I went away without buying them.
We're exposed to so much greenwashing!
I've said this for ages, but folks don't want to listen. Like you, I'm 50 and can remember the days before their was an internet or even a computer in the home. I remember how it was in "The Days Before". Folks don't realize that plastic didn't really exist until well after 1960. Sure, there were a few oddities like Bakelite, but prior to the 1970's, everything was packaged in paper, wood, glass, metal foil, and the like. Polymers just didn't exist, and certainly weren't in any sort of widespread use.
The idea behind plastics for packaging is that it saves weight and therefore fuel. Imagine a truck loaded with glass bottles and how few you could fit onboard for the same weight in plastic bottles. While both take up inordinate amounts of space due to their shapes, the truck could carry orders of magnitude more bottles before breaching its weight limits.
Of course, the real problem is that folks won't seek out the better solutions today because they are usually more costly. Everyone loves that cheap five-gallon bucket they can get from the hardware store, and they'd never come off with the cash for a wooden bucket to use around the homestead. One's cheap, and usually free, while also being light. If it breaks, who cares that it ends up in the landfill? The other, well, that has to be made by a cooper, something very hard to find anymore, and is both far heavier than a plastic pail, and far more costly.
We see the same all throughout the home. Mass-produced wooden spoons are chosen because they are cheap and easy to find at the big box store. Hand-carved spoons from the local bodger, using local woods, are more of a "nicety" and far too expensive for most people to even consider. Why spend so much money just to keep a local guy employed when you can spend a fraction of that and keep a foreigner employed?
The 2nd Order Effects of our decisions, the things we support or don't, often ripple out in ways we cannot imagine. Using plastic is a perfect example of that. When people were warned back in the 80's, most wouldn't listen because they were happy to go with the cheapest product imaginable, and the consequences be damned. Today, you can't find bodgers and coopers and blacksmiths in every town because many year ago, people voted for laws and regulations and taxes and policies that made small businesses wholly untenable for the most part. So, today, you get mass-produced chintz and no say in the matter.
I had no idea cellophane (or at least the original non-synthetic one) was biodegradable 🤯
I suspect we're not encouraged to compare what was with what is.
@@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture Because I live in a 'normal' household with a steady flow of non-recyclable plastics moving through it, I started making ecobricks with them. They come in too light to be dense enough for structural applications, but I figured that problem could be a solution and have an ongoing experiment to use them as external insulation (I'm too chicken to try to use them internally and fill crawl space with them since they are made, ultimately, from oil).
Preach it, dude!
Thanks!
Thank you for being prepared to endure temptation in order to prove your point---a point with which I am in full agreement.
Thanks! Resisting opening a jar is one thing, resisting ten bags of chocolate is on a whole different level though!
@@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture why ten bags? Ten bags, ten times the temptation of one bag :D
@@mkeyx82 so I can open one a year, for a taste test. It's important they stay sealed.
@@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture right, makes sense.
Agree with what you say. I remember the wax paper wrapper on chocolate bars., also the foil and paper wrappers on larger tablet bars. Really miss them. Unwrapping was part of the experience. As for control - lol, you seem to have tones of it. Chocolate doesn't last beyond a couple days in my house. I'd be more inclined to do it with cat treats. No temptation there, and kitty can be the judge if still OK.
So true,fry's mint cream in paper and foil. Now in plastic ,it always seems to be smashed and the filling spilling out. I can smell plastic. It doesnt even sound as nice as foil being peeled carefully backl
Remember the Fry's creams that were fruit flavoured? Lots of stuff came in paper and foil.
Let's see if I can cope with slowly watching chocolate go off when I could be happily eating it!
@@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture yes,I remember the orange and seem to recollect a sort of tuttifruity version.
@@pheart2381 that's the one!
I wouldn't have put any plastic inside the jar with the cochies. 😲
They arrived literally wrapped in that plastic, I'm not too concerned about that limited contact.
We have to pay for the plastic bags at the til - yet almost everything we buy comes pre-packaged in plastic. What I am going to do however, is collect number 2 plastics (HDPE) as it can be easily re-moulded into useful items.
I've looked into that too, HDPE is a pretty useful plastic. I fancy making chopping boards.
Yes!! I love your reseal jar videos and agree with you on plastics too. Will be interested to see how the chocolate experiment goes. Thanks for the memories, loved Mars and DoubleBubble in the waxed paper packaging. Cheers
Thanks!
Hi. I jave just been introduced to vaccum sealing watching Rain Country. Heidi uses a brake bleeding pump to vaccum her jars and her husband has made a canister that anyone can make. Thought you might be interested in case your vacuum sealer brakes down. Love your vids.
Excellent video.
Thank you very much!
Here's the thing. Weight. Plastic packaging is *lighter* than glass. Fuel savings for replacing plastic for glass. Especially during transportation.
Don't get me wrong, your vacuum sealing is much better packaging than the plastic.
Cellophane is lighter than plastic. And you're working on the premise that transporting everything vast distances is the only way. It isn't. And don't get me started on the fact that a lot of foods wrapped in plastic come in packaging that's twice the size it needs to be.
@@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture fully agree with what you said.
Plastic is a good product, but not for this.
Great video! Capitalism only cares about one thing - profit. As long as plastic remains the cheapest form of packaging, and remains legal, the corporations will do absolutely nothing to change. They will need to be forced by the government, who meanwhile are being lobbied and funded (political parties) by Big Oil, Nestle, etc.
What drives me CRAZY is the supermarkets like Tesco, Asda, etc who are constantly going on about reducing plastic waste, reducing single use bags etc - well WHAT are they doing? I still see a ridiculous amount of plastic packaging on things that don't need it. I've been hearing this for the last decade and I've seen practically nothing change. Why are they still handing out plastic bags at the checkout instead of paper or reusable cotton bags?
Meanwhile the planet is literally on fire and we're drowning in microplastics, PFAS and who knows what else (the latter two being something I have no idea how we're going to engineer ourselves out of, aside from better filters on every water inlet and outlet).
Plenty of folk aren't really tuned into this stuff so naturally they don't seem to care - but when you are aware of it, it's difficult not to get worked up about the lack of action. Oh well! Keep making these educational and informative vids - really enjoying them! Hope the weather isn't too rough up where you are!
Thanks!
Plus there's the plastic that everything is wrapped in, just to get to the store. It's a major problem.
Love this.
Thanks!
Agreed, but then you know that. lol @ your chocolate problems. I will bring you a pack of chocolate buttons next time I come out!
If I do one pack a year, that's a decade of self control! We'll see whether I have it in me
You can pyrolyses plastic to make fuel….
Hw do you vacum seal them ?
There's a link at the end of the video.
Good vid
Thanks!