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Grocery store, Seattle, early 1990's —
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I dreamt that I had figured out how to clean the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.... |
I was in queue behind a woman who was buying a huge box of corn flakes. The cashier, a young man, did not approve. He didn't agree with buying goods in such large packages.
"I'm an environmentalist," he said....
But a larger package is more environmentally-friendly than a smaller one.
If you make a box that is twice as tall, wide, and deep, you will have used four times as much cardpaper — and the resulting box will hold 8 times as many cornflakes.
The environmentalist/cashier didn't want to hear about it.
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