Nobody's arguing that It's important to be eco-friendly these days. Whether that means cutting down on plastic, recycling your office paper to help the trees... or being greener about taking drugs by washing out and returning containers.
Yes: you read that correctly. Some eco-savvy drug dealers somewhere in the UK have clearly banded together and decided that they need to start catering to the needs of their environmentally conscious customers (did they have a conference about this? It's unclear, though to be a fly on the wall...).
Due to the growing demand, we now have eco-friendly options for most facets of our lives. And a whole host of people in our lives who have suddenly become almost fanatic about keepcup's and shampoo that doesn't come in a bottle. 2018 saw the advent of paper straws in most bars and pubs as an alternative to plastic and The Guardian reported that reducing packaging is now the number one issue for the British shopper. Now, class A drug users can also sleep safe in the knowledge that they can return their plastic narcotics containers for washing and re-use.....yes. Much in the same way as you might, a milk bottle.
It's not quite the same as opting for re-usable shopping bags or recycled paper, but as it turns out there is actually a growing demand amongst customers for drug suppliers to be more aware of the environment, speaking to the Metro one cocaine user based in Birmingham said that he thought his dealer was 'joking' when he delivered cocaine in a plastic vial. But according to dealers there's a rising market for it 'he reckoned he had a load of hipster customers and they loved it' the anonymous source said.
It's not a terrible idea - as drug dealers have traditionally used plastic or foil wraps or ziplock bag, it's understandable that the estimated £875k cocaine users might become concerned about the impact this might be having on the environment.
But come on, with a 5% increase in deaths related to drug misuse from 2015 and mass deforestation in central America due to cocaine production, aren't there a couple of other things to worry about first?