Garbage from Washington state’s booming pot industry clogs gutters, sewers and landfills

Washington Post ^ | 08/14/2018 | by Kristen Millares Young

[upchuck]

There’s got to be ban on plastic baggies. Also a tax on the sales of Miracle Gro. /sarc.

I'd not be surprised to see either/both.

[fwdude]

“I’ve known a lot of pot smokers with prison records.”

You need to find better company.

I agree.

[jiggyboy]

“Recycling? Composting? I’m too busy making money!”
“Didn’t you used to scream at businessmen who had that attitude?”
“Yeah but this is different.”

[bkopto]

Some entrepreneur should find a way to make these containers out of hemp/dope so the potheads can smoke those also.

Pretty soon, the ComPost will also be complaining about all the air pollution and carbon dioxide emissions emanating from the potheads.

[Cold Heart]

Just this morning I had thoughts of putting the plans for 3D printed plastic straws on the internet.

[Kickass Conservative]

>>>Just this morning I had thoughts of putting the plans for 3D printed plastic straws on the internet<<<

You just won the Internet for the day.

[Slyfox]

WAIT A GOLL DARN MINUTE !!

Drinking straws are the problem !!!

[hardspunned]

The “shiftless derelict layabouts “ must be the marijuana waste the article speaks about.

[Moonman62]

Good One. I laughed.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Sorry R2. My bad. I saw doob tubes and reacted to that.

[rockrr]

...resulting in a lot of blotto fishies I suppose.

[dware]

What is there to do about it?

I use my "doper trash" to make nifty little survival/fire/fishing kits. They are perfect for it! Not unlike the FAR more prevalent bottles that big pharma uses to put their pills in. Same concept, never mind that there are far more pill bottles out there than "doper trash", but go on with your bad self.

[pas]

It isn’t like these are straws or something.

[NobleFree]

Another government-created problem ... still, better trash than cartels.

“I am sitting here looking at all the packaging that goes into weed. Put a pound of weed into a jar, break it down into one-gram units — that’s 454 single jars, tubes, bags,” co-owner Joy Hollingsworth said. “I don’t think there is any true way around this problem, the way the laws were produced in Washington” — specifying the weights in which marijuana can be sold.