Gregory's Server@CelloMomOnCars Some have expressed worries about resealable food preservation bags or even more durable plastic products than that eventually leaching into the seas, but this looks like an entirely different scale of threat—and for a minuscule convenience.
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 @james @AngryBull007 @CelloMomOnCars the issue/problem here is to come up with something that is convenient-not-polluting, because if all the convenience-only customers quit using pods, the accessibility market is probably not large enough to keep the product alive. @dr2chase @james @CelloMomOnCars It’s true that it is difficult for me to imagine anyone with sufficient mobility to independently load and unload laundry who couldn’t use a scoop for detergent. @AngryBull007 @james @CelloMomOnCars not mobility, but hand shake or loss of fine motor control (for example). Powdered detergent everywhere, joy. Not a problem I have (yet?), but I know a few people with Parkinson's. Interesting problem Ordinarily liquids could be very messy, too, but what if a dispenser was rigged up? Would say 3 to 5 pumps per load of laundry be doable? @AngryBull007 the simplest and probably most foolproof I have seen for liquid soap is a (clear, so it does require vision) bottle with a little reservoir fed from near its top by a thin tube from the bottom of the main container. Open the lid on the reservoir, squeeze the main, reservoir fills, unsqueeze, main sucks back the excess from the reservoir (so, leave some headroom above the target level, for inaccurate squeezes). Then, holding the whole bottle, pour out of the reservoir. @dr2chase I thought of something similar, but I wasn’t sure how usable it would be for the target audience. I think corporations will probably be able to replace the plastic shell with some other material. They absolutely have a profit motive to do so. @AngryBull007 the larger problem with plastic is when it is disposable plastic. The bottle is durable, ideally, you would use it for many refills from a larger supply. HOWEVER, the default product delivery (for that product) is not via refills, but new bottles, so, that's a flaw. @dr2chase @james @CelloMomOnCars Another possibility: many people DO use these products strictly as a matter of convenience. Manufacturers will want to continue supporting that demand even if the plastic option isn’t available anymore. Those who NEED this type of product (vs. simply wanting it) can use the packaging the producers replace this with. I’ve tried to dream up dispensers, etc. but they could get pretty messy and impractical. Let’s see what the pros come up with?  @AngryBull007 @dr2chase @CelloMomOnCars then I'd suggest you give it another go. there is indeed a person with this issue commenting to the original post talking about their struggles. |
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For the majority it is indeed easy to not use these pods. But I do just want to note that there are accessible reasons for using these, and we can recognise that they’re bad for the environment but also not reduce everyone’s experience to “minuscule inconvenience”
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