• @BroBot9000@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Microsoft, Google, Meta and Apple products.

    Bonus round: Twitter, Amazon, Nestle, KiwiFarms, Substack, American News and we all could stand to cut out some sugar.

  • NaibofTabr
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    3 months ago

    In terms of common consumer products?

    Dryer sheets, which are typically made from polymer fibers. Use wool dryer balls instead.

    Single-use water bottles - just buy a water bottle.

    Ziplock bags for food storage - buy some solid, washable food containers with rubber seals. They’ll keep food better for longer.

    Also stop using the plastic bags in the produce section at the grocery store - get some reusable produce bags instead. The ones I have are thin mesh that doesn’t block the barcode scanner at the checkout. The only produce I don’t recommend this for is stuff that is typically wet like lettuce.

    Basically try to avoid single-use plastics, many are unrecyclable (soft plastics like bags frequently just end up in landfill) or just dump extra plastic fibers into the environment (like dryer sheets). There are good reusable options for most of them.

    • M137
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      43 months ago

      No industrialised animal products are sustainable, and even if they were there is an unthinkable amount of suffering from it. Everyone should stop buying anything with animal products in it.

    • @0x01@lemmy.ml
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      23 months ago

      I’m surprised this is the first I’ve heard of this, are local fish hatcheries not sustainable?

      • @newaccountwhodis@lemmy.ml
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        43 months ago

        They are not

        findings

        Common amongst the more than 150 studies that concluded hatcheries had an adverse effect on wild salmonid populations were negative impacts such as reduced genetic diversity due to interbreeding with hatchery fish, reduced average size of wild fish, reduced overall abundance of wild fish populations, and reduced fitness for natural reproduction.

  • @antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    33 months ago
    • plastic of any kind
    • sugary drinks
    • bottled water
    • highly processed food
    • cosmetics
    • perfume and cologne
    • fake nails
    • business attire
    • gas powered lawn care tools
    • cigarettes
    • bad tasting alcohol
    • Tesla products
    • imported produce
  • randombullet
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    23 months ago

    Don’t buy anything. Make your own things! As much you can obviously.

  • @blargle@sh.itjust.works
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    13 months ago

    Stocks and bonds. (Oh, and futures and options and derivatives and ETFs and crypto and collateralized debt obligations and all the rest of that bullshit.)

    The entire “financial sector”. The “markets”.

    And I mean like… if E V E R Y O N E did.