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A small tax imposed on plastic bags led Orthodox Jews to lasting hostility against measures to protect the environment, a study found. They see policies against plastic as elite contempt (www.timesofisrael.com)

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A green tax imposed on single-use plastic four years ago — and later repealed — led to a long-term drop in support for environmental issues among ultra-Orthodox Jews, a new study shows.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.

Source: https://www.timesofisrael.com/short-lived-tax-on-disposable-plastic-sparked-lasting-haredi-hostility-to-green-policy/

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (10 children)

The community is more highly affected by poverty,

Durable reusable utensils are wayyyy cheaper in the long run than disposable. So, bullshit. Poverty has absolutely nothing to do with this.

and families are often large, making affordable disposable kitchenware useful in easing the heavy burden of housework.

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.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (4 children)

$10 says the "disproportional usage" is largely tied to them not "working" on the Sabbath and using disposable utensils as a loophole.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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."

[–] [email protected] 11 points 15 hours ago

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

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