Everything must be as the eco-Socialists tell it us should be. No stone unturned and no packaging untouched. Absolutely every nook and cranny of your lives need to be turned upside down until you bow on bended knee before the Altar of GAIA in our quest for perfections according to us.
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In this instance, they have chosen vending machines and their contents as the next sinful part of our lives. Something that most of us just walk by with few exceptions.
They don’t like snack food packaging over at Treehugger (of COURSE, where else?):
Most Snack Packaging Is Not Easily Recycled
Brands aren’t prioritizing recyclability at all
It’s the next styrofoam cup/straw all over again – screw everything up, make it more expensive, and make that thing not work anymore.
But it’s always about the GOOD intentions and not the harbingers of the results. All they care about is that YOU pay the price for THEM to feel good about themselves.
They’ve lessened their collective guilt once again and made you an angry better person for their meddling. “Leaving others alone” is not in their vocabulary or lexicon (in fact, it seems anathema to them).
Snacks are delicious and convenient, but many of them come in packaging that’s difficult to recycle. According to UK-based consumer group Which?, chips, cookies, and cheese are the worst offenders when it comes to non-recyclable packaging. Not only are the packages poorly labeled, making it unclear for people to know how to dispose of them after eating, but many are not designed to be recycled at all and must go to landfill.
There’s never a discussion of the cost/benefit with these people.
At what point does the packaging of vending machine snack food become so expensive relative to the food inside it, that people just aren’t going to pay for the products?
With folks “not paying for it,” they will have killed off yet another industry and for them, it’s a goal wrapped up in “sustainability.” And these busybodies can then turn around and say, just like US Federal Government Ambassador to New Hampshire Jeanne Shaheen does, “well, of course, you don’t want to pay for it!” and never mention they are the reason why.
I mention Jeanne Shaheen because she pulled the same thing back in the 70s with her participation with the Clamshell Alliance. She did all she could to make building Seabrook nuclear station as expensive as she could.
The first reactor did go into service but after all of the delays, the price/KW had soared. Seabrook II was canceled. Shaheen didn’t want us to have cheap energy just like these nitwits want to deny you a cheap snack.
And just like then, the claim is always “THIS IS WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT” – even as most people don’t care a whit – it’s exactly the same kind of marketing puffery they accuse Big Biz of doing:
There’s clearly a disconnect between what food manufacturers are selling and what customers want. Which? said that 67% of its members “often or always look for recycling info on grocery packaging before deciding how to dispose of it,” which goes to show that people want to prioritize recyclability. Natalie Hitchens, head of home products and services for Which?, told the Guardian,
“Consumers are crying out for brands that take sustainability seriously and products that are easy to recycle, but for any real difference to be made to the environment, manufacturers need to maximise their use of recyclable and recycled materials and ensure products are correctly labelled.”
The solution? Governments must make simple, clear labeling mandatory, thus allowing shoppers to know exactly how to dispose of the packaging on the products they buy.
My response:
There’s clearly a disconnect between what food manufacturers are selling and what customers want…”Consumers are crying out for brands that take sustainability seriously and products that are easy to recycle
Hardly.
By definition, consumers are NOT crying out – else it would have been done already. Only a certain handful of what is a special interest group are yammering about it – not massive numbers as you would have us believe.
Feel free to advocate for what you want but realize most don’t care. Heck, I didn’t even know that such an entity as “Which?” even existed. Still don’t care, either.
Know this – there are a lot of us who don’t partake from those kinds of vending machines – it’s a non-issue. Not even on my radar screen.
…Governments must make simple, clear labeling mandatory, thus allowing shoppers to know exactly how to dispose of the packaging on the products they buy.
And that’s another thing – stop being so condescending with the idea that everyone is too stupid to do anything unless Government tells them what to do. This is a big reason why many just ignore the plaintful wailing.
Make up a problem out of something that isn’t of real consequence, hype up the number of complainers, don’t worry about the cost, and get Government to force everyone else to these Karens’ wills. They are realizing that not a lot of people agree with them or disagree with the cost of what they want everyone else to do. Sorta like any other Progressive group of totalitarians, they make Government make everyone else come to heel.
And they wonder why nobody likes them much anymore?
