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xia@lemmy.ca to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 26 天前

Trash bags are one product that you buy just to throw away

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Trash bags are one product that you buy just to throw away

xia@lemmy.ca to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 26 天前
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  • rockerface🇺🇦@lemmy.cafe
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    26 天前

    Don’t get me started on toilet paper

    • yyyesss?@lemmy.world
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      I used to justify buying the cheapest brand possible because it’s just to wipe shit on then throw away.

      my wife says I’m not wrong but…

      • agent_nycto@lemmy.world
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        Good Lord your ass must’ve been like a cheese grater took to it

        • yyyesss?@lemmy.world
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          25 天前

          ⭕🧻

      • osanna@lemmy.vg
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        24 天前

        3ply FTW.

    • TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world
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      26 天前

      Most of us throwing money in the toilet everyday

    • z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml
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      26 天前

      Technically one buys food just to eventually flush it down the toilet after briefly using it to maintain energy and mass.

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    And matches are a thing you buy just to have go up in flames.

    • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip
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      26 天前

      And you use them to light cigarettes that literally go up in smoke. You can’t even store the smoke in your lungs, but at least you get to keep the tar and cancer.

    • DreamButt@lemmy.world
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      26 天前

      Either the match burns out or I do

  • LurkingLuddite@piefed.social
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    26 天前

    Not ‘just’ throw away. They provide a very nice convenience of bundling a bunch of trash together and make it all easier to transport to the bin.

    • renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net
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      26 天前

      Thx for explaining what trash bags do.

  • bryndos@fedia.io
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    26 天前

    frisbee

  • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world
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    26 天前

    That’s not true! I also buy condoms

    • xia@lemmy.caOP
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      21 天前

      Which are arguably another type of trash bag.

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    26 天前

    Not really. You buy them as a container to keep your trash. So they serve a time limited purpose like pretty much any other product.

    • Gathorall@lemmy.world
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      25 天前

      Yeah, you buy food just to throw it away by this logic.

      • backalleycoyote@lemmy.today
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        25 天前

        The spring mix I purchase and forget about in the bottom drawer, only to be found again when it’s a bag of black goo is a sacrifice to the fridge god.

    • Dremor@lemmy.world
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      As well as hide what’s inside. For privacy reasons.

      • neidu3@sh.itjust.works
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        25 天前

        We can still see the outline of your sex toys, so as long as you’re sticking to that gauge and length (impressive, though!) you might want to double or even triple bag.

        Best regards,
        That totally-not-a-surveilence-van across the street.

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          🤣

  • kbal@fedia.io
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    That’s the magic of plastic: Producing more of it is cheaper and easier than producing less.

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      Of course! You’ve solved it! We just need bigger bags to put the landfills in!

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        26 天前

        Then we can put those bigger bags if landfills in EVEN BIGGER landfills

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    That reminds me of a Lily Tomlin joke: “The other day I bought a little wastebasket and brought it home in a paper bag. Then I crumpled up the paper bag and put it in the wastebasket.” A lot of her stand-up act was just making little ironic observations like that.

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    Food packaging also really irks me. Technically, it has a use beyond being thrown away, but there’s just so much of it. You can readily find products in the shops that should be advertised as “plastic trash” and they just stuck a bit of food inside to keep it in shape…

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    I buy food just to shit it out of my body, its the biggest scam

  • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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    26 天前

    Someone’s never made themselves a poncho

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    I used to get them for free from the grocery store, and then dumbasses banned them, now for the first time in my life I need to purchase them separately to use once instead of twice.

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      I mean, they found one in the Mariana Trench, we probably shouldn’t use those anymore.

    • Bazoogle@lemmy.world
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      You fit all your garbage into grocery bags and took each one out?

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        25 天前

        Yea, it was a great system. I used nothing other than grocery bags all of the way up until the stopped offering them.

    • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Aren’t biodegradeable bags allowed?

  • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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    Worse, you have to throw away the container the bags come in… in the bags! :)

  • LordMayor@piefed.social
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    26 天前

    And, you never have to clean your dish soap.

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    Sadly there’s way more like that. Mostly plastic related.

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