Reality Check by Dave Whamond for June 25, 2024

Stealers Wheels said it best in Stuck in the Middle With You, …trying to make some sense of it all, but I can see it makes no sense at all…

Good point. No can do.

Straw man fallacy?

How else are the producers of plastics supposed to sell more plastic?

My dishwasher soap, cereal, cookies, hamburger, milk, etc all in plastic.

Democrats aren’t here to make sense! Newsome and his thugs are all about control, not saving the planet or anything of the sort and so many fools fall for his lies and propaganda.

Its not supposed to make sense, its supposed make money.

one word: plastics…

Because environment is saved only when consumers is inconvenienced.

so much fuss about plastic bottles when I’ve seen more plastic cups trash from fast food places than I’ve seen bottles.

Stands to reason… they were putting paper wrappers on plastic straws!

… bass ackwards world!

Stupidity reins! Straws are such a TINY part of plastic pollution. Ban water bottles instead.

No plastic grocery bags please. I only want to put all of my plastic wrapped groceries in PAPER bags.

A lot of stuff still comes packaged in unnecessary plastic.

She’s unimpressed by his tiny package.

It’s OK, though, the Saran Wrap comes in a cardboard box.

Delivered to the wholesaler on a pallet wrapped in super-Saran Wrap, of course!

Well, it did keep lawyers employed till the “Choking Hazard” label was added.

Well that sucks. :)

“Make it make sense” is philosophy’s mantra …!

( good luck wit dat )

an’ Ralphie’s all like “stop the madness!!”

Yeah, that seems about right.

I use steel straws now, and they work great. I even have one in a case that I take to restaurants.

No…Sanity left our station LONG ago….

What about Trader Joe’s or Whole Food Markets wrapping individual bananas in plastic?

You have to read the package. The one I bought stated that the clear plastic wrappers were 100% biodegradable with a decomposition rate of 3 months. Apparently, enzymes and funguses find them tasty.

The paper wrapped straws at the convenient stores are often nasty looking, clearly having had things spilled on them and then dried out again.