Idk about in the UK, but where I am you can’t buy flavored pods anymore since the public outrage a few years ago got them pulled from shelves. So now your options are either buy tobacco flavored pods (which taste awful) or get disposables which last equally as long as a pack of pods and come in good flavors. The reason disposables are so popular is because they come in good flavors. If good flavors for like juul were allowed again, you would see the popularity of disposables die off greatly and this type of littering to diminish.

But you know it’s all “think of the children” when nicotine already has the same level of restriction that alcohol does and nobody’s saying you shouldn’t be selling pink whitney because it tastes good to children.

I had a retinal detachment last year. Operated on but only got partial vision back. I wonder if this could help? Sign me up for the beta.

There's a Noble Prize in there if the research team is successful with actually restoring sight to blind people. A+

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It would hurt those living in poverty much more, you’re right. Hopefully banning single use plastics can help push using recycled papers and biodegradable plastics made from corn. Maybe some grocery stores can offer free reusable bags for signing up like to Walmart or Sams clubs. It can be figured out but you gotta take that first step sometime or else it’ll always be this way.

If they are going to do this, they also need to ban all the plastic they use to package everything.

I follow a couple local social media food people partially so I know where not to go. Places always end up totally slammed which good for them but I have to wait a couple weeks. I’ve had multiple local favorites where it became a “not today” after things got posted.

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I'm poor and rely on the free plastic bags to both carry my food for the walk home, a large amount since I can only make it twice a month to the store, and then we use them again at home for trash lining/cat litter/etc.

The real problem is a lack of perspective from the upper-middle classes, believing everyone can shoulder the cost of this feel-good legislation that isn't going to have a significant impact on the environment considering how reliant we are on the stuff for nearly everything we own. Guess what. We're just going to have to buy the plastic bags now.

Give up your phone, TV, car, PlayStation, etc and then let's go after the 10 or so, super thin, poorly manufactured bags I use a month.

Which is why the issue should be forced.

"Hey mate, you have a loicense for that plastic knife?"

I'm pretty sure technology handles most of the manufacturing of this stuff anyway. I wouldn't be surprised if grocery and restaurant chains are investing much more in lobbying for banning the stuff, claiming some sort of environmental concern, but really so they can point to politicians for shifting the cost to the consumer.

People are still going to buy plastic utensils and bags. Especially, those of us who reuse these things. Now we get to buy it ourselves. Unfortunately it's going to be the poorer communities who are most affected because they rely on these things, especially plastic bags.

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See we can do things if we try

I dont recall. I saw it being discussed somewhere and don't recall. I just thought it an interesting idea vs throwaway stuff.

All I can think of here is Chew from Blade Runner (the guy who designed replicants' eyes)

Apparently, the residents of my neighborhood have never heard of this "trash" thing, as I find scores of plastic water bottles discarded in my local park, gutters on my street of floating down the stream behind my house.

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Could this also help with improving vision in the shitty-sighted?

Could people eventually be able to use fully lab grown eyes to help fix issues like astigmatisms or is it still probably going to be eye transplants to fix them?

Not if Republicans take over Office. They will fight tooth and nail to open it back up.

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