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LOL. Imagine the amount of plastic created by Netflix DVD. How many people you can rent one DVD to and how much plastic is in one DVD compared to the packaging in your trash can right now.

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I assume it all delivered by bicycles.

You said plastic specifically.

And the postal service, to a rough approximation, already goes by every mailbox every day. Adding an envelope has a smaller impact than a bicycle delivery.

It’s still not free to deliver, as something other can be delivered by that car. You’re right, saying ‘plastic’ was slightly incorrect, as it’s not just the plastic involved. But also the management of the disk itself, its delivery and the people involved. I agree that we have other wasteful things to care about. They just don’t make that extra disk also free (ecology wise), we’re just so immersed in the waste that it’s truly a tiny drop into the ocean.

There has to be a certain point where the cost is okay and sustainable, compared to the amount of entertainment people get out of it.

Would a bicycle delivery have been okay? How about 1/10th of the impact of a bicycle delivery?

It takes a lot of people to make internet connections work too.

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