adjective:
Very durable; lasting; continuing long.
Perdurable ultimately comes from Late Latin perdurabilis, from Latin perdurare, to last a long time, to endure, from per-, throughout + durare, to last.
Sure, this word is an easy one, although why not just “durable”??
The twist on it I have for you is an example of something you may not expect to be perdurable.
Ta-da!
See the cute, pyramid-like tea bag? Guess what it’s made of. Paper?
No, silly. PLASTIC. Well, Lipton says “gossamer mesh” (oo la la….what is this Victoria Secret tea?)
No, actually, it’s PLASTIC (company position: “PET is completely safe and is 100% recyclable within the plastics waste stream.”). As in, don’t toss them on the compost heap with the other tea bags. The tea inside? Totally biodegradable, I can only hope. The PLASTIC? Not so much.
You have to cut open the bags, empty the tea out, rinse the bag, and THEN recycle them with your (also evil) plastic water bottles.
I just wanted a fruity, white or green tea for iced tea (I AM from Texas, after all, and it WAS hot here).
Now I have a frackin’ moral dilemma: use the tea and toss irresponsibly in the garbage, retaining only my guilt, or do all that crap (see above) and RECYCLE the little pointy devils.
Plus, what about plastics being heated and leaching out toxins, you say? But we don’t have to worry about THAT! We merely pour hot, possibly boiling, wa… Oh.
Thanks, Lipton. Kiss my tannic a$$.
What do you think I should I do?
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A middle road? Toss the plastic doohickeys form this one box and then vow to never buy them again. I hate the way companies trumpet their recyclability when they introduce a LESS environmentally sound product.
omg. that makes me sick.
Take it back to the store where you bought it and throw a hissy fit about how they are promoting environmental irresponsibility, then demand your money back . . . and maybe a complementary box of tea for your troubles. You’re a lawyer; throw in some legal terms, and possibly bring Kid along to join you in the fit. Managers start to get nervous and twitchy when there’s a good fit being thrown in their store.
(If you do this, can you let me know so I can come watch?)
citizen, that IS what this feels like, oh, it’s recyclable! sort of….Lipton, tsk, tsk.
sorry, Dawn, I didn’t want to make you feel sick!
brooke, you are ONLY arguing for a scene so you can blog about it!! you’d probably bring the camera….
I may just cut into all of them, use the tea as loose tea, and recycle the plastic like the rest of the plastic…but I’m not sure.
That sounds like a ginormous amount of work to recycle that sucker.
I never knew . . .
Let me see if I get this straight…
My stretch marks are perdurable.
Did I use that right?