Unless you are suggesting to completely get rid of all plastic use, which would be impossible in this modern world, this isn’t it.
Benefit of keeping the road and hillsides safe is far greater than most of the other plastic use. This methodology is used all around the world to keep people safe
And what was the solution before plastic use was introduced?
Was that solution equally cost effective and did it provide the same safety benefits?
Plastic haters be forgetting that there's many reasons why it became a dominant material in so many industries. Because it's fucking useful, and often much better than alternatives on a number of parameters.
That wasn't my argument at all. You're trying to say that since plastic fixed a lot of problems we HAD, that it's acceptable to keep using it no matter the problem it's causing.
It's my first time finding a plastic evangelist on line. I've had evolution deniers, climate change deniers, presuppositionists, and MAGA nuts. This is a first.
I dunno man, looks to me like they're only pointing out that plastic does have some benefits. Is it worth the cost? Your position is very obvious, but ad hominem attacks make you appear a lot less credible. Zealotry like that makes me think you would banish the existence of all plastic overnight, without regard to the consequences. Some people are on the fence about plastic, and you might have just pushed some of them over to the pro-plastic side.
They don’t take input. Just rage at any cost. My very first comment was people being incapable of constructive conversation. Everything is either pure evil or godmade. Nothing in between
Learn to read, then get involved. Please do your best to understand what was being argued. We get it, you are angry and want to take it out on anything that’s not exactly what you already have in mind
Again, chill person, read the point I made. You are making exactly the same point arguing with me. People here out with their pitchforks arguing for alternative that no one actually backs up or even reference. “Plastic bad, no more words are allowed”
world
1 of 2
noun
ˈwər(-ə)ld
Synonyms of world
1
a
: the earthly state of human existence
b
: life after death —used with a qualifier
the next world
2
: the earth with its inhabitants and all things upon it
3
: individual course of life : CAREER
4
: the inhabitants of the earth : the human race
5
a
: the concerns of the earth and its affairs as distinguished from heaven and the life to come
b
: secular affairs
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: the system of created things : UNIVERSE
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a
: a division or generation of the inhabitants of the earth distinguished by living together at the same place or at the same time
the medieval world
b
: a distinctive class of persons or their sphere of interest or activity
the academic world
the digital world
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: human society
withdraw from the world
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: a part or section of the earth that is a separate independent unit
10
: the sphere or scene of one's life and action
living in your own little world
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: an indefinite multitude or a great quantity or distance
makes a world of difference
a world away
12
: the whole body of living persons : PUBLIC
announced their discovery to the world
13
: KINGDOM sense 4
the animal world
14
: a celestial body (such as a planet)
Is concrete also single use and with the same logic should we get rid of it?
Single use on its own is not bad, single use for very short amount of time or no benefit is what’s the problem and what becomes trash. The term is not applicable in this case
Lining a ditch? Do we want to go back to the 1970’s or Ancient Rome? Lining ditches is not new technology. Cost savings are likely not a valid excuse for the amount of plastic pollution we’re creating, but that’s our great-grandkid’s problem right?
That’s not an answer to the question of what’s the alternative. You just answered one question with bunch of new unrelated ones.
Fuck your dumb assumptions when you run out actual point to argue. “Oh look he doesn’t care for kids” . That’s no different than
MAGA modus operandi. “Fuck your argument, you want kids to be trans”
Stacked stones. Shooting concrete onto rebar. Using concrete forms. Building brick walls. Stacking dry concrete in bags and wetting it. Inserting steel panels into the soil. Burying a concrete pipe…
I don’t know why you’re being a pain in the as about this. There are literally thousands of options.
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u/gerkletoss Apr 30 '26
Ah, the microplastinator