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ipaine said:
Yes it is forced in Edmonton, city bylaw that somehow makes things "cleaner" for the environment. In reality I have seen way more garbage than before and it nothing but a pathetic attempt to pander to that crowd.


The money goes nowhere but back to the company. None of it has to go into any type of program or anything.

And of course it is stupid as hell. I mean you can go 5 minutes over to Sherwood Park or St. Albert and not pay for bags there. Entire thing is beyond stupid, right up there with the paper straw BS.
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Most St albert grocers follow the same 'charge for bag approach' though I think fast food and the Mercato market are the exceptions.

I'm all for ditching plastic bags for paper, or forcing a biodegradable bag law, but it definitely feels like the CoE half-baked the legislation. The paper straws are similar. Yes think of the turtles, but it's not straws from the Canadian prairies ending up in the ocean. They go straight to the local landfill. So now I have a shitty glue and PFAS-laden paper straws that.... don't really help.
Coastal areas? Sure. But when the problem is overwhelmingly India, Philippines, Malaysia, etc, it feels like green-posturing;
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Note: This isn't a 'oh we don't have to fight pollution/climate change/waste' statement, just that in this particular instance of straws, it feels like pantomime when they're still legal in the Phillipines, and while banned in India and Malaysia, enforcement is allegedly nil.
 
FreeKnight said:
Most St albert grocers follow the same 'charge for bag approach' though I think fast food and the Mercato market are the exceptions.

I'm all for ditching plastic bags for paper, or forcing a biodegradable bag law, but it definitely feels like the CoE half-baked the legislation. The paper straws are similar. Yes think of the turtles, but it's not straws from the Canadian prairies ending up in the ocean. They go straight to the local landfill. So now I have a shitty glue and PFAS-laden paper straws that.... don't really help.
Coastal areas? Sure. But when the problem is overwhelmingly India, Philippines, Malaysia, etc, it feels like green-posturing;
Ocean-plastic.png

Note: This isn't a 'oh we don't have to fight pollution/climate change/waste' statement, just that in this particular instance of straws, it feels like pantomime when they're still legal in the Phillipines, and while banned in India and Malaysia, enforcement is allegedly nil.
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When my mom traveled to Thailand a few years ago, she noticed that a lot of the people there didn't realize that the plastics weren't safe to just throw on the ground or in the water. Compared to us and other "1st" world countries it's very new to them.
 
clshades said:
When my mom traveled to Thailand a few years ago, she noticed that a lot of the people there didn't realize that the plastics weren't safe to just throw on the ground or in the water. Compared to us and other "1st" world countries it's very new to them.
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Education is part of it for sure, poverty another. I do think there's a real cultural difference in SE Asia where 'preserve our environment' isn't really a cultural idea for the most part. Canada has it in ebbs and flows; some care, some don't and most in the middle really only care about parks and recreational areas.

Compared to say Japan, which while it does have polluters and litterers, keeping nature 'pristine' is a lot more prevalent in the public conciousness.
 
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As we all share this planet, we should take all these fees here and help somebody like the Philippines setup public sanitation infrastructure to better manage their waste (though I think Canada also sends garbage to them). That would at least be a meaningful action.

I still don't believe there's any enforcement on the plastic bans. Lots of places still use various single-use plastics. Even like Wendy's switched to plastic cups instead of the typical paper-wax ones. 🤷‍♂️
 
The paper-wax ones don't get recycled in our area. We are told to put them in the garbage. At least the Wendy's plastic ones we can recycle in our blue bins.
 
SugarJ said:
The paper-wax ones don't get recycled in our area. We are told to put them in the garbage. At least the Wendy's plastic ones we can recycle in our blue bins.
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our municipal recycle program won't take plastic bags / wrap style stuff, no foam of any kind and no glass. pretty much everything else can go into our bins. wood, metal, cardboard, paper, wax paper, food containers. the no go stuff above have to be taken to the recycle depot here and dumped in their appropriate bins for compression and transportation.
 
Marzipan said:
I'm ranting on about how the USB-C hasn't taken over the world and made every other PC connector obsolete. It's small, adaptable, used by a plethora of technology platforms...WHY?!?!? <_<
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I agree with you, but I have had more type C cables fail on me than any other USB type, just to be clear most of the time it's not the cable itself that fails it's the connector.
 
Marzipan said:
I'm ranting on about how the USB-C hasn't taken over the world and made every other PC connector obsolete. It's small, adaptable, used by a plethora of technology platforms...WHY?!?!? <_<
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because of community support in my rant, I will rant once more! /Old man shouts at clouds about the lack of USB-C domination.
 
gingerbee said:
I agree with you, but I have had more type C cables fail on me than any other USB type, just to be clear most of the time it's not the cable itself that fails it's the connector.
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agreed, but I see that as due to the fact most USB cables have a sedentary life and just sit there between the PC and the device. USB-C cables face a lot more activity and movement and I think that's why they have a higher failure rate. I probably have to replace all of mine every year or two. :P
 
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