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What silly inconvinient stuff would you outlaw if you could? (lemmy.ml)

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I'd outlaw sauce bottles which make getting it all out harder, especially the ones which don't have the opening at the bottom and make it impossible to put the bottle with the opening facing downwards.

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[–] Iron_Lynx 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While we're on the subject of plastic packaging:

I want the recent Dutch law on single use plastics to be significantly rewritten.

So they passed a law, requiring sellers to charge people for single use plastic containers. Sounds cool, right? Well, the law has some problems:

the seller is allowed to set the surcharge to be as high as they want it to be.
the seller may keep the money from the surcharge
the seller is not required to offer an alternative
the seller can refuse to honour people's request for them using their own packaging

So effectively, they'll set the surcharges to be as low as they can, and don't bother allowing anyone to use alternatives. If you go to a snack bar, ask for a serving of fries, and offer your own bowl to put them in, the seller can just tell you "NOPE"

So I think the law should be retooled to cover these issues. The prices should be set from above, the money should go to the state, and the seller must honour customers' requests for using their own packaging alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

the seller can refuse to honour people’s request for them using their own packaging

Preposterous! How are we expected to reduce our consumption of single use containers if we are not allowed to use anything else?

I've had great success bringing my own sealable glass bowls when I want to get takeout and they eyeball out the regular size portion for me. But here currently it's only possible on an ad-hoc basis, by asking as a favor as a regular, since it's just not part of custom. It would be great if bring-your-own-container was protected and encouraged by law!

My city passed a plastic bag ban recently and I was skeptical about it at first but it actually has been a great help. Not even so much in banning the bags themselves, but in changing the culture and expectations. Now it feels perfectly normal to bring in your own canvas bags to shop because everyone does it, whereby before you'd look like a weirdo for doing it.