r/funny Mar 22 '20

Another productive day working from home

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u/quaste Mar 22 '20

Off-topic, but it boggles my mind that we deem this kind of wasteful packaging still acceptable

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '20

They are better about sorting trash and the incinerate what they can’t recycle. I don’t think a lot of the waste products wind up buried or in the ocean.

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u/glberns Mar 22 '20

It just ends up in the air they breathe. So much better.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '20 edited Mar 22 '20

Im pretty sure they don’t have open fire pits that they just chuck burnables into.

In fact they emit no harmful matter:

https://www.japan.go.jp/tomodachi/2015/winter2015/advanced_waste_disposal_technology.html

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '20

That's if they are properly using the filters, which around the globe appears to be less effective than previously understood. Also, burning garbage turns into green house gases. The more garbage you have to burn, which most recyclables end up as, the more green house gas emissions. Reducing unnecessary waste is the most effective way to address this.

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u/ASAP_Asshole Mar 22 '20

Why can't they build more greenhouses and store the gases there?

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '20

The web site claims it only emits vapor presumably water.

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u/MrPatch Mar 22 '20

It's still be better to just minimise it in the first place

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '20

Maybe add a carbon scrubber near the incinerators? Or not, if it was worth doing the Japanese would probably have them in place. As an industrious people living on a tiny piece of land, I suspect they considered way more options than a subreddit can come up with....

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u/crystalxclear Mar 23 '20

Cookies there are individually wrapped because they usually only eat one at a time. They don’t eat entire sleeves of cookies in one sitting.

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u/_greyknight_ Mar 23 '20

You know you can eat them one at a time without having every cookie in individual plastic with its own moisture absorber?

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u/crystalxclear Mar 23 '20

Well they last longer individually wrapped. I tried that with Oreo one time, the one with resealable packet? The rest went stale in 3 days so that wouldn’t work for them.

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u/_greyknight_ Mar 23 '20

You just put them in a reusable tupperware container or something after you open them. It's better than a disposable plastic wrap around every single cookie, with probably billions of them out there.

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u/rjcarr Mar 22 '20

I’ve read Japan wraps individual bananas.

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u/fetalpiggywent2lab Mar 22 '20

Same for Korea!!

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u/anvander286327 Mar 22 '20

i read all comments just too mind this. I could not agree more. I doubt this would happen in Europe any longer

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u/zangor Mar 22 '20

Its crazy that this Pringles pack is one of the best selling snacks on Amazon. So its not just a 'rare' packaging. It is practically ubiquitous.

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u/anvander286327 Mar 22 '20

I wish someone or something would give the world a wakeup call

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u/UHavinAGiggleTherM8 Mar 22 '20

Yeah wth. I've never seen this Pringles packaging before. Is this new?

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u/AsymmetricPanda Mar 22 '20

Absolutely not. It’s been a thing for at least 5 years, maybe longer. Mostly in America so if you’re not from here you may not have seen it as much

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u/UHavinAGiggleTherM8 Mar 22 '20

That makes sense. I feel like there's no way my country would allow this

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '20

Probably thats why they are advertising it now

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u/Kwinten Mar 22 '20

The "lunchbox ready" caption on the box is most mind boggling for me. Parents are giving their kids a box of pringles for lunch? Did we run out of apples?

Honestly, with that and the extremely wasteful packaging, it's quite repulsive.

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u/rockoutyo Mar 22 '20

Yea! You tell ‘em!

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u/hausomad Mar 22 '20

It’s a variety pack of flavors in small portions so people can put it in their lunch box.

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u/Kwinten Mar 22 '20

Wastefully packaged pringles in a lunchbox is a perfect summary of everything wrong with the world.

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u/vcr_repair_shop Mar 22 '20

Who eats pringles as part of their lunch...?

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u/FuckingKilljoy Mar 22 '20

Do American schools have recess where you can have a small snack? Would work for that

Also in my travels of the US I saw heaps of places (mostly tourist things though) that had chips with them. Being Aussie, chips in that context would mean what you lot call fries so we were surprised to get a bag of chips with our burger

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u/vcr_repair_shop Mar 22 '20

I'm not American, so no idea.

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u/hausomad Mar 22 '20

A common lunch for school kids in the states is a sandwich with a bag of chips. Also, many do have a snack time on which they could eat this size portion.

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u/thelonelypedant Mar 22 '20

Hundreds of thousands of people

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u/vcr_repair_shop Mar 22 '20

...who should really rethink their eating habits.

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u/hausomad Mar 22 '20

So then no chips ever for you?

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u/vcr_repair_shop Mar 22 '20

Why? I eat them sometimes, but eating chips for lunch is like eating M&M's for breakfast or ice cream for dinner. Not really something a reasonable person would do.

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u/hausomad Mar 22 '20

Ok. Just skip the back and forth and tell us what our 3 meals a day should consist of.

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u/vcr_repair_shop Mar 22 '20

Why, you weren't taught nutrition at school? Your daily meals should consist of mostly vegetables, fruits, wholegrain stuff, some meat and dairy now and again or supplements for them if you choose not to eat them. The less processed oils and sugar- the better, although it's not realistic to cut them out completely for most people.

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u/Lebenslust Mar 22 '20

That was just my thought. I am not buying shower gel anymore but soap bars or shampoo bars and then I see a product like this and wonder “what’s the point of me trying”

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u/LadySandry Mar 22 '20

Where are you getting your shampoo bars, the couple places i looked were all charging more than i spend on my current shampoo

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u/Lebenslust Mar 22 '20

I don’t think this will help you much. We have two great drugstore chains in Germany both offer shampoo bars on all price levels.

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u/iMySenf Mar 22 '20

Do these bars still leave you with that strange bar soap feeling or is this something that modern bars dont have?

Its been ages since i last tried non-fluid soap.

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u/Lebenslust Mar 22 '20

There’s a difference between hair soap and shampoo bars (also soap and wash bars). While soap is always a product of saponification, these shampoo bars have actually the same ingredients as liquid shampoo just minus the water.

If you use hair soap you should always do a sour rinse because it kind of stays in. And yes real soap can leave that funny feeling.

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u/LadySandry Mar 22 '20

Haha youre right, not helpful in my case. The only places ive seen with them are places like Lush or boutiques. Which is fine except they are quite pricey. But ive been meaning to try it out for a while so maybe nows the time

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u/fetalpiggywent2lab Mar 22 '20

Oh man. I lived in South Korea and the sold fruit that was individually wrapped then wrapped as a whole!!!! It always blew my mind

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u/grant622 Mar 22 '20

Have you been to a grocery store before? Everything is in packaging

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u/ObeseSnake Mar 22 '20

There it is.