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no offense to older people in chat, but why do so many older USonians try to overuse appliances or reusable containers with worn out plastic in contact with food? (procial.tchncs.de)

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no offense to older people in chat, but why do so many older USonians try to overuse appliances or reusable containers with worn out plastic in contact with food?

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is this a worldwide issue? my hypothesis was they got introduced to them as wonder materials of the future. even plastic sponges get reused when they clearly have molecule-deep filth in every crevasse

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Probably grew up with depression era parents, or themselves lived through the tail end of it. Thrift and reuse were a must, but today those habits... well, some people have difficulty just throwing out the daily onslaught of junk-mail, let alone soda bottles and takeout boxes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

@[email protected] that makes sense to me like hyper green people or those who inherited great depression behaviors for a reason why affluent people would

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

some people have difficulty just throwing out the daily onslaught of junk-mail

This reminds me that I accidentally solved junk mail. Our neighborhood mailbox got destroyed and hasn't been replaced yet, it's been a few months and every time I go to get my mail from the local dispatch center I never get handed any junk mail. I asked about that and the lady said they toss all that junk for held mail, lmao. I can't imagine the box I would need to carry it all after a weeks buildup.