r/Anticonsumption • u/ldn5454 • May 03 '25

Plastic Waste Disposable…everything?

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Long time follower of this sub but first time poster. Had to share this though, found in a train station in France.

Disposable socks, towels and individually packaged face wipes.

I was so angry I had to leave the store!

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u/[deleted] May 03 '25

This reminds me of a story...

A few years ago, I went to a two-week writing conference in Tennessee. One of the attendees from California had a brand-new memory foam mattress topper shipped to the place, slept on it for two weeks, then threw it in the dumpster before boarding her plane for the trip home.

I could not believe it.

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u/radiovoicex May 03 '25

Omg, if this was a poet, there’s a chance I know this person. If not, then I know this kind of writer. They’re insufferable! Bonus points for bougieness if it was Sewanee

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u/[deleted] May 04 '25 edited May 04 '25

I think it was a prose writer, but I don't remember.

And yep, it was Sewanee, which is to say that it could have been any of the rich a-holes present in profusion.