Forgive me people, but I need to let something rather demonic out on the topic of plastic free... I doubt this will be orderly, as my fingers are shaking and I'm about as angry as I can get (and I don't get angry)...
I have guests who arrive tonight and their relatives (who live locally) wrote to me to ask if they could drop a few things off before my guests arrive. I thought it was sweet, so of course I agreed. That is until she arrived.... with 5 single use plastic bags of groceries she had bought and proceeded to decant it into my plastic free Airbnb...
The contents were: fruit in 2 layers of plastic, cheese in 3 layers of plastic, cereal in plastic, tea in plastic, all manner of vegetables, snacks, plastic boxed grapes, plastic wrapped plastic, plastic on plastic... plastic with extra plastic... actually feck this, I'm not going to list all this crap...
Can I just call her what she is? Can I? A LAZY, OXYGEN STEALING DRAIN ON THE PLANET who could not take an extra 8th of a second to look to the left or right, when she was in the grocery story, and buy any one of the HUNDREDS of plastic free options we offer in NZ supermarkets today. I'm not talking about the hard choices here, I'm talking about the easy ones. I mean if she had delivered things wrapped in plastic that we took a while to solve ourselves, fine. I'm talking about the choices that were RIGHT THERE in front of her and even would have saved her money.
Convenience is not an excuse for what I am seeing in my Airbnb fridge. My plastic free Airbnb fridge. That is now full of plastic. That my guests are arriving tonight to see and will... be greeted with a mountain of plastic the size of a hippo.
What the hell was she buying fruit and vegetables in plastic for?!?! All NZ supermarkets sell this stuff without packaging and it is CHEAPER. I'm being honest here, there is no rhyme or reason for the choices this crazy person made. My wife went down to look and we are stumped. What.. the actual feck... does someone buy plastic boxed avocados and apples for? Where do you even FIND those today?! And cereal in a giant plastic bag...
When she was finishing her plastic redecorating plans, her single-use plastic bags (that we don't even sell in NZ anymore) were empty. At this point, her parting words to me were "Oh I'll just leave these plastic bags here in case they need them for rubbish".... rubbish... as in she planned... she actualy planned for these monstrosities to be used as LANDFILL BAGS!
I counted to 5 mentally, then replied "How about I recycle those for you, then they can use the plastic free environmental rubbish bags that we already provide under the sink?" She seemed grateful, and was completely oblivious to my point.
Allow me to finish by saying that, as of this moment, I solemnly declare my eternal wish for all persons of this level of intelligence to suffer from an eternal plague of large, biting insects.
That is all.