2w ago

Costco changed the bag to plastic!!

That's right folks! Costco, for whatever reason changed the tortilla strip chip bag from a perfectly recyclable bag to this piece of shit bag that you can't recycle.

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Or, they’re finally being realistic about the bag’s recyclability…
- Yeah weren't the old ones lined with plastic anyway? I would think it would need to be to keep them from going stale
I buy the big thing of cashews from there; recently, they went from the infinitely-reusable and recyclable hard plastic cube with screw-on top to a plastic bag like this. The label says “uses 40% less plastic” or some shit. Costco is a good company, but holy shit so much single-use plastic.
- The cubes, for 9/10 people, is single use plastic. That was actually a good change.
  
  This is also consistent with Reduce reuse recycle
- About the time they got rid of the hard plastic cashew jars and switched to the bags, they also started selling a (more expensive) glass jar of cashews.
  So for me, it does cut down on the plastic, since now I just refill the glass jar with the bagged cashews, rather than needing to buy (and dispose of) the plastic jar every time.
  I might feel differently if I was actually reusing the plastic jars for something but I really wasn't (not after the first few, anyway).
  
  Now if they would introduce a deposit on those jars and refill them...
  
  I totally re-use glass jars! It's a nice cleanable container.
- How many of those cubes is it reasonable for someone to have?
  
  If that threshold is less than 10, I’m unreasonable
  
  If you are building something out of it like a raft, any number is fine.
- most of the recent changes to costco lately is the current ceo, hes been trying to make it behave like other large chains as of recently.
You can't recycle paper tainted with food oils. Or if it's lined with plastic/wax. It gets sorted and dumped into the landfill. You can't compost it either. Neither options are good unless it's pure paper bag with no mixes plastic.
- Yeah, they should have gone to a rice or dextrin or CMC coated bag. Stuff that just dissolves in water.
This is not a shitpost.
- While I don't agree, your post is shittier than OPs
Was the bag actually paper before, or paper lined with plastic?
- It was lined with plastic.
  
  It was paper lined with plastic....turtle choking bags of plastic coated paper. Probably using less plastic. Well not sure if it was plastic or some sort of PVA but it was mostly just paper.
Cost, probably.
Similarly, the packaging change they made to the rotisserie chicken means me never eating that heated plastic bag garbage ever again.
It was plastic before but it was at least a tray and a covering. So the plastic at least seemed more durable and not all of it was touching the bird. Now it's just a shitty plastic bag being warmed under a light. Disgusting.
- They did also cut the chicken with the same knife they cut several million chicken before the one you picked today! Yey!
Might be my imagination but I think Kirkland stuff has been declining in quality lately. The paper towels seem worse now, but I'm not sure how.
Their paper towels from Kirkland feel cheaper. I think they may be enshittifying themselves.
You still can recycle plastic, therefore point made by the OP is false.
- You're right: plastic is just as recyclable now as it was before.
  Which is to say, it continues to largely fail to be recyclable.
  
  I think this was a joke
- technically true. but some plastic products cost too much to recycle so they go into landfill.
  also some recycled plastics can't be recycled again because it's "impossible" to know what percentages of what other plastics were used in the final product. again, too costly to recycle.
  these are all primary examples of why using plastic as a packaging product are based entirely on marketing and manufacturing cost over environmental impacts.
  truth of the matter is, natural fibers like cotton and wood pulp(paper) plus biodegradable sealants like wax, vegetable oil, shellacs, etc are far better for the environment than any amount of "recyclable" plastic.
- Please take not of the symbol on the bag in that image. It indicates that the plastic bag is not recyclable. Not all plastics are recyclable, and also I banged your dad, you can call me Dad2 if you like.
You can recycle plastic.
- No. This is a myth perpetuated by huge companies who create a lot of single use plastic.
  There isn't a type of plastic in existence that can be recycled without degrading in quality. A plastic bottle cannot be used to create a new bottle. This is why less than 5% of plastic waste is actually recycled.
  
  That’s just categorically false. Trash Panda Disc Golf does a video on just that myth. The problem with recycling has nothing to do with degradation. It has to do with economics. New plastic is cheap. Reusing plastic isn’t.
  
  without degrading in quality.
  I didn't say it can. You can still recycle it, just not into the same product.
- Highly dependent on where you live and what the capabilities of the recycling facility are.
  
  True.
Umm, I personally would be more worried about the bioengineered stuff myself.
- Look into it. Bioengineering is not scary, it's just a word the some media outlets fear monger
  
  Exactly. If your body can eat it, its done. Its just carbon.
- Why? Tweaking the genes of something doesnt magically make it dangerous
  
  It depends what they're tweaking and why. For example, a lot of stuff is tweaked to become "Roundup ready," and facilitating the mass use of glyphosate is dangerous.
- We've been manipulating the genes of plants since 1716 when Thomas Fairchild first grafted two different things together to make the first hybrid plant. If you like modern corn, you can thank bioengineering/GMOs.
  
  Thousands of years older than 1716 if you count domestication of species like bananas
  
  I dunno, I see stuff about there is not even original corn and other items left anywhere except for seed banks. Also don’t like bioengineered means they own it. Corps don’t share.

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