bar shampoo gets a no from me, I have a HORRIBLE amount of hair/skin oil (genetic) and if I don’t wash my hair for even 1 day it looks like an absolute mess.
good news is that when I’m older I’ll have absolutely glorious hair though lol
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brianary@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
The straw thing seems like such an inconsequential place to start over things like switching to bar soap and bar shampoo to avoid using so many plastic bottles.
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
brianary@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
My hair is also excessively oily, and I wash it daily with bar shampoo.
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Get back to me when bar shampoo has medicated variants and doesn’t fucking suck.
brianary@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Yeah, not everyone can do it, but I have no reason to doubt that most can, but we’re really getting hung up on a single example here, people.
How about deodorant? How many people use deodorant in a cardboard container instead of plastic?
Gloomy@mander.xyz 6 months ago
I use bar shampoo and body wash. Daily, because i sweat a lot (genetics too).
I use bar stuff because i have to shower daily. It prevents so much waste, because i work through soap fast, so at least i am not producing plastic waste.
If you have to wash your hair a lot, thats an argument for bar shampoo, not against.
A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 6 months ago
Nooooooooo please oh no, pleasee, you can’t make me use bar soap please noo.
I seriously hate it, maybe saving the planet is not worth it after all /j…= but also those bottles are refillable while straws are not only single use but are thrown away way more often.
lengau@midwest.social 6 months ago
You do you. I switched to bar shampoo and I like it so much more!
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 6 months ago
How much shampoo are you going through???
Gloomy@mander.xyz 6 months ago
Think of it in scale. It’s not just you. It’s millions of people. Even if every household only used one bottle over one year that still would be tons of tons of (easily to avoid) waste. And of course it’s a lot more than one bottle a year.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 6 months ago
Because you can’t say the same thing about straws or other single use plastics?
brianary@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
How much plastic is in a bottle of shampoo vs a straw, even averaged by day?
Atomic@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
All you need to do is walk on the side of a busy road and look in the ditch to see what people just throw away.
It’s not a lot of shampoo bottles, but tons of plastic cups and accompanied straws.
brianary@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Anecdotes aren’t a great way to measure this. Observations like this are variable by location, and ignores the much larger mass in landfills or unrecycled stockpiles.
Atomic@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
And observations of landfills or unrecycled stockpiles doesn’t vary by location?
The idea was to try and remove plastic waste that people tend to just throw away without thinking much of it. Lab students don’t exactly take pipets with them and throw away in a ditch. But unfortunately, way too many people just throw away single use plastics like straws, cutlery, cups, “paper plates”, etc.
brianary@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
I didn’t make any such “observations”, or even claim that it doesn’t vary by location. I’m just pointing out that your approach ignores a lot of much larger plastic masses. It’s ok for identifying some obvious opportunities, but I’d hesitate to call it definitive for the purposes of establishing the most impactful strategy.
I’m not sure if people’s unmindfulness is responsible for a larger share of waste than indifference, but maybe?