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demmiblue

(36,843 posts) Mon Sep 27, 2021, 10:26 AM Sep 2021

I wonder why the earth is becoming polluted with plastic?

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BTW, whole pineapples are on sale at Aldi for $1.69 this week. I wonder how much that small chunk actually cost?!

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I wonder why the earth is becoming polluted with plastic? (Original Post) demmiblue Sep 2021 OP

Shirley you jest. Throck Sep 2021 #1

I don't jest and don't call me shirly. Ray Bruns Sep 2021 #4

A lot of these packaged foods are helpful for people with various disabilities. WhiskeyGrinder Sep 2021 #2

Actual cost ? dweller Sep 2021 #3

I never buy cut up fruit in a supermarket but marybourg Sep 2021 #5

I think that the rate of plastic pollution is directly related to the hooman abqtommy Sep 2021 #6

Throck

(2,520 posts)

1. Shirley you jest.

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Mon Sep 27, 2021, 10:28 AM

Sep 2021

We are consumer pigs.

Ray Bruns

(4,093 posts)

4. I don't jest and don't call me shirly.

Reply to Throck (Reply #1)

Mon Sep 27, 2021, 10:48 AM

Sep 2021

WhiskeyGrinder

(22,328 posts)

2. A lot of these packaged foods are helpful for people with various disabilities.

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Mon Sep 27, 2021, 10:29 AM

Sep 2021

It's an ongoing debate, similar to the straw debate a couple years ago.

dweller

(23,629 posts)

3. Actual cost ?

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Mon Sep 27, 2021, 10:41 AM

Sep 2021

Maybe .15 cents, shipping and handling $1.50
BUT ACT NOW AND GET ANOTHER FREE !
(just pay separate shipping and handling)

✌🏻

marybourg

(12,622 posts)

5. I never buy cut up fruit in a supermarket but

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Mon Sep 27, 2021, 10:51 AM

Sep 2021

let's face it, people rushing around from job to job or school are better off grabbing that thsn a big cookie.

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)

6. I think that the rate of plastic pollution is directly related to the hooman

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Mon Sep 27, 2021, 12:38 PM

Sep 2021

pollution we have on this planet. I know that when you depart on your flight back
home from your trip to Hawaii you will be given a whole pineapple for FREE! Let's
all go and collect!

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