Quote Originally Posted by GeoFisher View Post
Those are pretty extreme ideas.........you can only produce 3 or 4 , government MANDATED items.

Let market economies drive that.

I tend to agree with packaging though. I'd prefer we go to the cereal store and there is a paid person distributing cereal to YOUR container. It would prob cost more due to the person being paid, but you'd eliminate how much packaging waste? It's a simple idea........it's easy to implement, and not too costly........and would save millions of lbs a year of waste.

You could use that model in a lot of places, including most takeout places.

WE already kind of use that in some grocery stores, where you bring your own bag.......An example of byob is Trader Joes. Also, when my wife and I were in Hawaii, all Target stores have bring your own bag. IF you don't have one, they sell you a cloth one, but YOU have to pay for it. I still have those bags we got in Hawaii, and we use them regularly at our Local Target stores. It's cool when folks ask about the cool Target bag and we share the story.

Now, I don't use them all the time, but we do use them.

Later,

Geo
Your first two sentences I disagree with, while I know there should be some kind of competition to drive innovation, real innovation comes when solving a problem. I think we have cereal figured out.

Everything else I agree with. The shear waste we produce just in single use plastics would be reduced by these simple concepts.

Now the garden and chicken idea isnt so extreme and would create another large cut in waste both in packaging for foods but also food waste. Everything you dont eat, compost it for your garden or feed it to the chickens. Then you look at the amount we would reduce in pollution from transport of the food and goods and waste.

But like it goes, if it makes sense, it wont happen.