Understandable, but the cost to produce a glove is still very minor. And the way you solve pollution and microplastics from items in the trash can is by making sure that trash from cans is handled appropriately. Not by having consumers reduce their trash by a few percent. The climate damage is the only thing where you can really put responsibility on the consumer, and that can be fixed with a well-directed fraction of a penny.
It's not about your individual glove. It's the 300million-ish people using 10 disposable gloves a day.
>And the way you solve pollution and microplastics from items in the trash can is by making sure that trash from cans is handled appropriately. Not by having consumers reduce their trash by a few percent.
How can you handle the level of trash we have responsibly? what's the plan? You seem to know, so please share it with the world so we can save the planet.
I totally understand your point about the environment.
Given that I only fill my car once every 14 days, and only use 1 single glove for the hand touching the handle, I'm not overly concerned about the generated waste. Even if every American did this during the pandemic it would be dwarfed by the number of gloves used by hospitals even before covid.
I certainly agree that plastic waste is a major issue, and I'll certainly re-evaluate my current method when we aren't mid pandemic, but I'm confident there's simpler ways to reduce plastic waste in more meaningful amounts. I'm pretty sure that I've removed more unnecessary packaging plastic from purchased goods in the past month then gloves I've personally used total this year (I dabble with stuff you want to wear gloves with).
It's literally not about you, the individual. I'm not trying to chastise you, but we, as a society, need to consider waste. If 300 million people have your mindset, then that's 300million plastic gloves in a landfill every 14 days, which is too much. And I assure you that other people don't have your mindset.
The trash from trash cans can be buried safely in landfills without much difficulty. The big problems arise when we cut corners or have plastic trash that is not in trash cans.
