• SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    So we have all this plastic waste because people can’t be bothered to operate a can opener?

    • Ech@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Basically. Convenience pushes most, if not all, of the packaging changes we see. Plastic has been very good at accomplishing the things people want to be done with packaging at a low, immediate cost to the user. Turns out the long term cost is much more drastic.

    • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Because people like you can’t be bothered to respect their fellow humans in terms of use case design.

      But yes. Until we find a way to use can openers to keep small amounts of ketchup sterile, it’s because people can’t be bothered to use a can opener.