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Already reality in entire EU.

Aren't those mostly made of glass and metal? Seems less harmful than plastic, but I am unfamiliar.

Well yes, you are still handling Br*tish food

Just as soon as your local nanny state gets off their hunches and makes it happen! I'm sure England will lead the pack!

Make this worldwide, and usage of plastic is going to fall down drastically

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He may be joking of the AAA and AA non-rechargeable varieties.

Which is a good incentive to start investing in more wind. Prices of steel for the towers have also gone up.

Where, exactly do you think the money for UBI is going to come from?

If you take a fairly conservative $1200 a month to cover rent, food, and basic utilities (not including internet or phone or ANYTHING else) and multiply that by 2/3 of the US population, that's 2.8 Trillion dollars a year.

Trillion.

There's no way you can do that that wouldn't make the inflation we're currently seeing look like the tiniest little blip in history.

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Where I live it has become increasingly common to get disposable wooden cutlery; I think it’s made from bamboo.

Single use battery banks? Wtf? Is that actually a thing?

But do you need a license for that?

Funny enough alot of people get upset by the biodegradable replacement, whenever they ask if we have single use cutlery in the shop i work at.

They almost seem insulted by the very idea.

And this is why we need ubi. Anyone with half a brain can see that high employment rates at 40 hrs a week is unsustainable. There just are t enough things that need doing by people to justify it . We need to move beyond the idea that everyone needs to have a job that pays enough per hour to work 40 He’s a week and just subsidize keeping people with a universal basic amount of income for basic needs. If people want more than the basic needs then they can work, working should provide a means of having extra not provide the means of surviving

Actually quite easy. Plastic comes off plastic quite nicely

That's great. Small steps in the right direction compound over time.

I wish they had the intelligence here in America to ban single use plastics in restaurants too. I’m sure there’d be enough lobbiests to “persuade” the politicians that workers need to keep making them to stay employed. Instead of adapting to greener laws, we choose to pollute the planet because of “jobs”

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Yet plastic water bottles remain. And novelty toys that kids and adults will play with for few minutes and then they go in the trash.

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Something that you use for 5 minutes shouldn't last 500 years.

....but, are you eating British food with it? It's tough to wash that level of awful from plastic.