I couldn’t tell you but my friends notice it with their parents and it seems to get worse with age like they form an emotional attachment to their non stick pan which leaches a healthy dose of teflon into their food. I think a lot of people are acutely aware that waste is bad ut don’t go the extra mile and get non disposable things like glass containers, steel/iron pans, user servicable devices.

I want to keep things for a long time but i make sure to get things that will actually last long. I replaced all my dissolving plastic tupperware with glass because it just makes more sense for longevity. Although it took me a long time to realise my half dissolved, stained sticky plastic containers were probably not good. The worst offenders were the two I had since i moved out, absolutely reeked but I found them hard to get rid of cos we’d been through so much together. Me and my stinky plastic box.

My parents don’t seem to horde old rotting shit but they have the opposite problem and generate absurd amounts of waste instead.