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Erich Bloodaxe BSN

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8. I went to try and pick up some of the

Reply to ghostsinthemachine (Reply #5)

Fri Mar 4, 2016, 07:29 PM

Mar 2016

Morningstar Farms products at a local grocery the other day, and ended up not buying them because of packaging. They'd switched from recyclable cardboard boxes around very minimal plastic inner bags to thick heavy, 'resealable' plastic bags. Very frustrating to see companies moving to MORE wasteful plastic packaging, rather than less.

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People Are Really Angry About Whole Foods� Pre-Peeled Oranges In Plastic Containers feed_manager_aut [View all] WhiteTara Mar 2016 OP

Really angry? Don't buy that stuff myself, but good grief. Hortensis Mar 2016 #1

I think people are happily mocking them all over the country.... Bluenorthwest Mar 2016 #3

I hate that shit ghostsinthemachine Mar 2016 #2

Some idiot is buying them, though. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Mar 2016 #4

Lots of idiots are, even at the environmental (anti Fracking) event I was at last night ghostsinthemachine Mar 2016 #5

I went to try and pick up some of the Erich Bloodaxe BSN Mar 2016 #8

I remember when laundry detergent was powder and in bio-friendly boxes. valerief Mar 2016 #6

I get the detergent in the little pods Freddie Mar 2016 #9

Yes. I switched to pods. 840high Mar 2016 #10

I've used the pods, too, but I got to wondering why they have to be liquid. Why not powder in valerief Mar 2016 #12

This message was self-deleted by its author valerief Mar 2016 #11

Indeed they are. KamaAina Mar 2016 #7