Demand Film Screening: Peleton Against Plastic July 31 6:30pm Regal Gallery Cinema DC

[Steve O]

Here’s the link: https://us.demand.film/the-peloton-against-plastic/

[DismalScientist]

I assume that carbon bikes are not allowed to participate.

[dkel]

@DismalScientist 191786 wrote:

I assume that carbon bikes are not allowed to participate.

Do any of your retro-grouch bikes actually have zero plastic on them? My son’s recently acquired 80s Trek road bike seems to have at least a few plastic bits on it.

[Starduster]

@dkel 191802 wrote:

Do any of your retro-grouch bikes actually have zero plastic on them? My son’s recently acquired 80s Trek road bike seems to have at least a few plastic bits on it.

Before we get too distracted, this is about single use bottles, etc, that are now a huge pollution hazard, not your structural plastics…

[dkel]

@Starduster 191805 wrote:

Before we get too distracted, this is about single use bottles, etc, that are now a huge pollution hazard, not your structural plastics…

Hey, man, I’m just trying to push back on the haters.

[mstone]

@Starduster 191805 wrote:

Before we get too distracted, this is about single use bottles, etc, that are now a huge pollution hazard, not your structural plastics…

Forget plastics, the biggest pollution from a peloton are those little foil goo dispensers and all the damn banana peels.

[smb9600]

@SarahBee 191780 wrote:

Anyone else interested in seeing this?

That looks good!

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[SarahBee]

@mstone 191808 wrote:

Forget plastics, the biggest pollution from a peloton are those little foil goo dispensers and all the damn banana peels.

Beware the banana peels of doom!

[SarahBee]

Regardless of what your bike or bike components are made of, single use plastics such as water bottles are one of the largest threats to our global environment. They end up in landfills, along the trail sides that we clean (Freezing Saddles trail clean up crew), it’s what we ship to Southeast Asia to recycle on our behalf, it’s the main component of Trash Island in the Pacific Ocean, and it is the microplastics that now litter our bodies. This film highlights the urgency on the elimination and reduction of single use plastics in an area mostly impacted by the effects. I’m curious to see the intersection of this global issue and cycling. Come check out the film and let’s discover together!

[phog]

I don’t have time to see the flick but feel that taming the beast must be done on the supply side- China no longer wants our nasty crapola, and I don’t blame them.
Go to you local obeseomarket and see the 8 ounce packs of slimy deli-like product, pumped full of chemically-infused, saline water, thickened with starches so it doesn’t run. It will be sealed in a plastic bag, which is in turn encased in a semi-rigid plastic clamshell, which, in a coup de grace, has a cardboard wrapper around it. Bloody hell.

[mstone]

@phog 191856 wrote:

I don’t have time to see the flick but feel that taming the beast must be done on the supply side- China no longer wants our nasty crapola, and I don’t blame them.
Go to you local obeseomarket and see the 8 ounce packs of slimy deli-like product, pumped full of chemically-infused, saline water, thickened with starches so it doesn’t run. It will be sealed in a plastic bag, which is in turn encased in a semi-rigid plastic clamshell, which, in a coup de grace, has a cardboard wrapper around it. Bloody hell.

The problem AIUI is that in reality the US isn’t responsible for much of the plastic pollution because we tend to have a good infrastructure for putting waste plastic in trash cans and getting it to landfills. (Jerks aside.) The numbers I’ve seen suggest that most of the plastic in oceans and other undesirable places come from areas which lack the infrastructure to collect and dispose of the plastic (especially from people who can’t afford dump fees). Reducing the US contribution to zero wouldn’t materially affect the amount of plastic in the ocean. I’m not sure what would be effective, maybe a global fund for creating landfills and free trash disposal or something.

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