To ask what one thing you would ban to help the environment?

[AngryBirdsNoMore]

Following on from @GADday’s well meaning thread about disposable sanitary products being an option to phase out to help the environment - what one thing would you ban to help the environment?

Let’s not get into sanitary products again. That thread makes clear that disposable sanitary products are probably here to stay for a range of reasons…

Ill go first:

Private planes. I’m struggling to think of any reason why they’re necessary especially for short flights.

Plastic grass.

Dogs and other carnivore pets

Train travel per mile into major cities in Europe costs a fraction of what it does in the UK.

Frisbees as per the pic get caught around the necks of marine mammals and cause horrific injuries and slow painful deaths. They should be banned from beaches.

This seal was lucky, it was rescued and the frisbee removed.

Disposable vapes.

Not unless the theory is that car owners should be penalised by not being allowed to eat cheesecake.

Things that effect males. Fed up of it being female and childrens products that get banned or looked on disapprovingly.
Paper straws don't work for toddlers and I don't want to do anything with my san pro other than put it in the bin.
I don't see men using reusable condoms or ensuring the golf balls they loose or ping in to water are biodegradable...

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What population collapse? The world population is growing and reached 8 billion last year! I haven't even suggested reducing the UK population - just maintaining it with a 2 child limit per woman.
The Earth is becoming unliveable on, for humans and (fast) for other animals. Increasing the population isn't exactly an answer to that, is it? Education and contraception would be the starting point. We should look at financial incentives too.
Or would you prefer a denial of what's happening, as the world burns around us and more and more animals go extinct?

Thank you.
So it’s the ring frisbees specifically, not all frisbees.

Average speed camera zones and smart motorways. I feel these cause more tailbacks and harsh braking/acceleration, than if you let people get on with it

Fake grass and plants

Fireworks, lanterns, log burners

Banning the manufacture of jeans and cotton products.

The sad fact is whatever we do won’t make a jot of difference until China etc. take drastic measures to reduce their carbon output.

Where was your plastic grass made @Cheesecakeandwineinasuitcase?

Your answer to pollution is 'who gives a crap, china is worse' when they are the ones making the things we consume... it's not 40 billion log burners producing that carbon dioxide, it's factories.

How can you not see how circular and apathetic your reasoning is? I take it there's no point helping poor people in the UK because people in India have it worse too?

We have these in my home country. You put your bottles in the machine and it pays a certain amount of cents per bottle.
The machine then gives you a voucher for the total amount to spend in the shop where the machine is.
I used to save all my bottles until I had a couple of black bags full, then trade them. I used to use the voucher towards my shopping, it could be anything between 20 and 50 euro's worth.
My family back home still save theirs up to cash in for a large voucher.
The pensioners and kids love it, you will often see them out collecting the ones left laying in the streets.
The local councils even put bottle trays on the lamp posts for people to put their bottles in if they were out and about so the pensioners and kids could collect them easily.
They put the idea for machines forward here in the UK, but the government ( I think it was Cameron at the time ) mooted it for some ridiculous reason.

In the UK we're already at 1.56 per woman so we're well below your target. That's below population replacement level btw.

The population is increasing because lifespan is increasing. But the global birthrate is decreasing and has been for decades.

The reason I want this is because the cans and bottles that I collect every week are NOT put into home recycling. They are left under bushes and in the woods by local teenagers and rough drinkers. I am one of the few who bothers to go and collect them. If it was incentivized then some other kids might go along and grab the recyclables leaving me to just pick up the plastic bags and other crap they leave behind.

Your answer to pollution is 'who gives a crap, china is worse' when they are the ones making the things we consume... it's not 40 billion log burners producing that carbon dioxide, it's factories.
It’s a valid point though. China is bothered about economic development not pollution. They won’t stop manufacturing plastic tat. And selfish people won’t stop buying it. Our government needs to ban it. But then China will just sell it to other countries. So everyone needs to ban it. And I can’t see that happening, and it’s out of our control anyway. So we might as well just enjoy the ride while the boat is sinking.

Batshavebuttocks, tail backs are caused by cars

Well, personally I would like less plastic crap in our own rivers, so I don’t think trying to get a grip on it is entirely pointless regardless of what China does.

I have family abroad and would like to do more travelling. If it was a choice between seeing my family or all flying being abolished because that's what it takes to save the planet, I'd choose the latter. I'd either move to be near my family or accept I would rarely see them. As was the case until about 100 years ago.

I would ban fossil fuels
I would ration clothing and possibly food.
I would ban individually wrapped food items like sweets.
I would ban all disposable wipes.
I would ban disposable swimming nappies and probably also disposable nappies.
Ban tea bags. Use leaf tea.
Ban coffee pods.
Ban bottled water in countries with safe drinking water.
I expect I'd ban some construction projects and insecticides / agricultural practises too but I don't know much about it.

I recently went to an exhibition on London Fog. No one replaced their fires until they were forced to, even though the smog was killing people. It took decades. People don't want to be inconvenienced and mostly won't change unless forced or bribed.

When I say I would ban bottled water in countries with safe drinking water, it's not just the plastic bottles. It's the "water" miles and the damage to the natural water sources as well.

Billionaires

Barbeques, both disposable and fixed. The smoke from them in a neighbourhood setting is horrendous. Any day now they will be going again and my washing and my nose and ears (from the hilarity and accompanying BBQ beer fun) will be destroyed.

Oh and what about NOISE pollution? That is becoming very irritating now with speaker phones and selfish idiots using the speaker in buses trains and so on.

I'm turning into Victoria Meldrew. I knew it would happen one day.....

Car lights automatically coming on during the day. Buses with internal strip lights on during the day. Offices / schools / public buildings with lights on continuously during the day. Businesses with external flashing neon signs on during the day.

All of these especially when it's sunny!

I also object to all of these on behalf of migraneurs and those with light triggered epilepsy.