2016: Plastic bags 🛍️
2019: Plastic straws 🥤
What’s next? Paper receipts 🧾 bloom.bg/2FQkF6c
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In reality, #SkipTheSlip would have almost no impact, writes @AdamMinter bloom.bg/2FQkF6c
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Worse, it diverts attention from more pressing waste and recycling issues ♻️ bloom.bg/2FQkF6c
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📃 314,000 tons of paper
🌲 Five million felled trees
🌫️ Generates six billion pounds of CO2 bloom.bg/2FQkF6c
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🧾 314,000 tons is less than 0.08% of the more than 400 million tons of all paper products – from receipts to cardboard – used per year across the world.
Paper receipts are merely rounding errors bloom.bg/2FQkF6c
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Cardboard and other packaging left over from e-commerce shipments
Dubbed the “Amazon Effect," the global market for packaging is set to grow 14% annually through 2022 📈 bloom.bg/2FQkF6c
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California's recycling programs started losing money, raising rates and seeking new locations for their trash bloom.bg/2FQkF6c
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Bans on paper receipts and straws are not those proposals bloom.bg/2FQkF6c
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The proposed legislation only serves to distract California consumers from addressing one of the state's most complex issues.
Environmental advocates who are serious will skip such campaigns bloom.bg/2FQkF6c
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