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Sad but true (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 5 months ago by Sixth0795 to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 116 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (42 children)

I'm surprised the youth of Lemmy hasn't picked up more on the "liquid soap is bad for the environment" thing. I got berated at length by my Millennial SIL (me, GenX) for using liquid soap, and because this was family, I actually did a deep dive into the subject so I could win the argument and put her in her fucking place, and it turns out she was right.

Why did I have to learn this in meatspace, and not on the internet from random kids? Things ain't right, I tell you, when my extended family knows and/or cares more about an environmental topic than left-leaning Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

My question is, why are concentrated soaps not bigger for human use like they are for animals? The shampoo and conditioner to wash my dog comes in a gallon jug and dilutes 50:1. That gallon jug lasts me years, and I'm bathing a golden retriever that has a lot of hair. If shampoo came by default in a gallon jug we just had to mix once or twice a month with water in a separate bottle we would save so much plastic, so much cost, and so much transportation weight!

And concentrated products for pets are more common than diluted ones. So clearly we know how to do this, why don't we do it for human stuff too by default?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

For animals things are done practically. For humans things are done profitably.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I think the pet industry rivals human products for profit; not so much for livestock, but for pets it's still profit-driven.

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