tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post324080129056517699..comments2024-03-29T05:15:59.987-04:00Comments on Just An Earth-Bound Misfit, I : The "Green Thing"Comrade Misfithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15404477636451308763noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-76688480380573584682015-04-19T06:29:53.661-04:002015-04-19T06:29:53.661-04:00S O, I'm with you all the way with the 5-litre...S O, I'm with you all the way with the 5-litre tin barrels. Especially for beer!Expatriate Owlhttp://expatowl.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-87459348568358387852015-04-19T02:13:18.124-04:002015-04-19T02:13:18.124-04:00Since they outlawed disposable plastic grocery bag... Since they outlawed disposable plastic grocery bags here, the stores have simply come up with the cheapest containers they can legally call reusable, and charge a buck a piece for them at the checkout if you forget to bring your own. Some use the old brown paper bags with paper handles attached to the top. I have enough of them now, that I never forget mine.<br /> It's been a while, though, since I've seen one of those old plastic ones blowing along in the wind like a tumbleweed, so in that sense the law has been a success. Glad to see them go, too.<br /><br /> -Doug in Oakland dinthebeasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12941071534250216503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-3027726859761196792015-04-19T00:09:43.381-04:002015-04-19T00:09:43.381-04:00Glass bottles are horrible. So much weight for a m...Glass bottles are horrible. So much weight for a mere packaging. And milk degrades due to light in glass bottles.<br /><br />I'd like to see 5 litre tin barrels as the standard unit of beverage packaging - preferably with a folding grip on top.<br />These exist for beers in Germany, and are much more practical than small bottles or even 2 litre PET bottles for soda.<br /><br />S Ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03359796414832859686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-18086642794533764612015-04-18T23:14:37.174-04:002015-04-18T23:14:37.174-04:00Since when did 'The Green Thing' become pr...Since when did 'The Green Thing' become pre-technology? Everyone back in the day would have gleefully used every modern convenience instead of what the email claimed was 'green' (I didn't see miles per gallon in it, somehow) if they had the chance. The environment is fucked because people are people, not because the past was more virtuous.GolFoxtrot Yankeenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-73095355545687592462015-04-18T19:38:59.733-04:002015-04-18T19:38:59.733-04:00Yeah! Dial phones and nuns - and what you said. ...Yeah! Dial phones and nuns - and what you said. :)<br /><br />I often wish, that at the very least, I could get milk, juice, etc. in glass bottles. I also wish the Fed govt would turn border security, transportation security, etc. over to the packaging industry. Perhaps if they were otherwise occupied, I could open packaging without a pocketknife, kitchen shears, a screwdriver, and a bunch of profanity.<br /><br />Jay in N.C.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com