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PM_ME_GENTIANS t1_irm260u wrote
Reply to comment by 90sRobot in Reynolds 3000ft plastic wrap box that’s been in my house since 1996. Finally used the last of it today by WannaHearALimerick
If it's the old pvc based stuff then it should sink, looking a lot like a jellyfish as it does. So it probably wouldn't been eaten a few times by now. Unless it went to a properly capped landfill, which was probably fairly common in 1996 in the US, in which case it's still there and maybe still usable.
PM_ME_GENTIANS t1_irm1z2f wrote
Reply to comment by woolgathering_futz in Reynolds 3000ft plastic wrap box that’s been in my house since 1996. Finally used the last of it today by WannaHearALimerick
Maybe 3kg for the full roll? In which case that's similar emissions-wise to ~300g of beef, or driving 100 km. Though spread over so many decades it's pretty insignificant compared to all the other pollution we emit.
PM_ME_GENTIANS t1_is4be6g wrote
Reply to comment by Fruitndveg in Reynolds 3000ft plastic wrap box that’s been in my house since 1996. Finally used the last of it today by WannaHearALimerick
No, but the most pressing problem is still the carbon emissions, especially in a situation where the waste goes into a capped landfill like the above, as opposed to if it were in a country with uncovered landfills or high levels of material being "lost" to nature on the way to a landfill.