Happy Christmas with further meditation on PLASTIC

 

Wishing a #MerryChristmas to all who celebrate. May the season bring peace and joy throughout the whole world.

And thank you #DigitalInclusion for capacity to decorate without murdering a pine tree pic.twitter.com/BDprCljj0z

— Dorene Cornwell (@DoreneFC) December 25, 2023

Now that RantWoman has provided festive art and snark, let us proceed to other meditations.

How "weird are we willing to be to save the planet?

Eternal Vigilance about
minimizing landfill contributions

Behold the flatware and a cup of soup at the co-op.

How many times / year does a person eat out??? How many pieces of plastic flatware is one contributing to landfills.???

For RantWoman, the answer HOPEFULLY is a lot less than average.  And the reason is not ONLY that RantWoman prefers fast food options where all packaging and disposables are compostable, although that is one strategy. (Sigh: RantWoman thinks the plastic lid on the soup cup is NOT compostable). RantWoman also CARRIES HER OWN FLATWARE. 

Yes, indeed, among the many things subject to RantWoman's rule of purse and bag physics, "things go in and may or may not come out," are a soup spoon and a fork usually wrapped in a plastic bag. Sometimes RantWoman is still in too much of a hurry to pull out her own flatware, but RantWoman finds it extremely satisfying in a comforts of home way just to eat with her own flatware.

One note: readers who have to go through metal detectors a lot may want instead of metal flatware to look specifically for durable plastic flatware. RantWoman is nowhere near ready just to compulsively save and reuse average plastic flatware until it falls apart. For one thing, RantWoman finds it easy to clean metal flatware but not so easy to clean usual plastic flatware.  

Durable chopsticks are another lovely option if one is adept at feeding themself with them.

Metal detectors are also one reason RantWoman's portable place setting does not include a tableknife: one time RantWoman had to sacrifice a table knife she had forgotten about to the overseers of a courthouse metal detector.

But back to vigilance about not sending things to landfills. One point of this exercise is that small things add up. Another is that crusading for disposibles that are compostible is the kind of project that might make say a 4th grade class feel like something they can do will make a difference. RantWoman, alas, does not have any fourth graders convenient but is going to leave us all with reflections on some kind of small things we might do differently....