I'm getting sick and tired of business packing everything in plastic

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

78. The problem is that we're running out of forests

Switching back to paper-based products will create problems of a different kind that will be just as damaging to the environment. Even switching to cloth or metal-based packaging have their own unique availability and environmental challenges (for example: recycling metal can be a very nasty process).

It keeps coming back to buying local, and using things like reusable cloth bags as much as possible. I'm rather angry with my local grocer for not accepting reusable bags anymore for curbside. Used to, I kept instructions in the "notes" section to come get the reusable bags I kept in my trunk to load up my order before bringing it to the car. They stopped doing that during COVID and never let us go back to it.

What's most aggravating is that I had to replace my original set of bags because they finally became too tatty to use anymore. That was about two weeks before COVID struck. So I have all these new bags all but unused.

Grrrrrrrr