A green tax imposed on single-use plastic four years ago — and later repealed — led to a long-term drop in support for environmental issues among ultra-Orthodox Jews, a new study shows.
The ultra-Orthodox community viewed this as a direct attack upon its way of life. Israel is one of the world’s leading per capita users of single-use plastics, partly due to the Haredi community, which uses more single-use plastics than any other demographic.
In November 2021, the government coalition headed by prime minister Naftali Bennett introduced a tax on disposable plastic plates, bowls, cups, and straws. The environment minister at the time, Tamar Zandberg, predicted that it would reduce purchases of plastic items by 40%.
This became a major political issue, including during the national election. The Haredim joined the coalition headed by Benjamin Netanyahu. The repeal of the plastics taxes were the first decision by new Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich of the far-right Religious Zionism Party.
Durable reusable utensils are wayyyy cheaper in the long run than disposable. So, bullshit. Poverty has absolutely nothing to do with this.
Wut? With that many people you can very efficiently distribute the work load and get things done a lot faster than one person living alone can do the equivalent amount of housework. So, again, utter bullshit.
This just sounds like self-righteous laziness.
$10 says the “disproportional usage” is largely tied to them not “working” on the Sabbath and using disposable utensils as a loophole.
See, this is how I know religious people are full of shit. “God is all-seeing, all-knowing, and all-powerful! Anyway here’s one of a couple simple tricks we do to get around his rules.”
Don’t forget the eruv circling Manhattan so they can ignore other Sabbath rules wholesale while going about their days.
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/13/721551785/a-fishing-line-encircles-manhattan-protecting-sanctity-of-sabbath
Yeah, that’s dumber than magic underwear. That might be the dumbest religious thing (with the exception of, you know, wars) that I’ve seen. Calling all of Manhattan your (and specifically your) domicile doesn’t stretch the meaning of domicile, it completely ignores it.
Maybe they made that true
This reads like the compulsion of the Godspoken on Path from Xenocide.
They believe that the loopholes around the rules make the lifestyle that God intended for them.
It’s not really about fooling god. The rules they are following amount to an ancient health and safety manual, and also employer/employee relations. Theyve gotten a little carried away over time, that’s why loopholes, same as OH&S bullshit today
They still say those rules came from God. Pigs aren’t naturally unhealthy to eat, but back in the day you could easily get sick. We now know how to safely eat pigs, but they won’t change their ways because it was God’s command to never eat pigs.
just think about what you’re saying a bit
Just pile them in the sink like a normal roommate!
clearing the table is work, tossing trash is not
You can get a family pack of metal utensils at the dollar store for like $5