matrixmann: Irgendwas ist hier gründlich schiefgelaufen... (Something's happened here...)
matrixmann ([personal profile] matrixmann) wrote2019-02-17 01:52 am

Shopping carts made of plastic (No joke!)

Anyone's already seen the latest craze - shopping carts with the basket area entirely made of plastic?
Only the wheel area and their legs that connect to the basket made of metal?

One of those things which make you ask how much the appeals to you personally to use less plastic in life to go easier on the environment are actually meant seriously...

[identity profile] maadmike.livejournal.com 2019-02-19 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
"Metal - you melt it in a big pot again, do the mixture you want to have and pour it into a new form. "

Yes, but the energy spent on producing metals is tremendously higher than making plastic, I did not research but the price on both shows it well. There are nowadays the ideas to stop using fuel and use more wind and sun energy but people not counting all the circumstances. Using recoverable fuel and material sources as algae, grass, wood for fuel could be much more economically and ecologically effective but oil companies will always saying it is a bullshit and you shouldn't even try but always buy and buy...