Imagine the massive inconvenience of separating your plastics so that your recycling facility can actually recycle more plastic waste instead of if ending up in a landfill ๐คฆ
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i'm pretty sure most plastic isn't even recyclable
edit: relevant link
It's not that the plastic isn't recyclable it's that you cant mix plastics and recycle them. So if there is a doubt at all what a plastic is then it's thrown away or if it can't be separated from other materials or contaminated with oil or something.
Imagine the massive inconvenience of having to separate plastics to recycle when you literally work at a plastic recycling plan.
Standard practice in Germany but I think there's no recycling in the USA (assuming you're there) so quite pointless in this case
Bahaha oh mein freulich
very relevant article: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/15/recycling-plastics-producers-report
I could be wrong, but I would assume they're part of a bottle exchange; where they wash the bottles and reuse them
Can you name your country? Because, uh... No. If that actually exists where you live though, then that's awesome. We should have that here.
Some dairy deliveries have that. We get milk, lemonade, creamer all delivered in glass quarts pints or half pints. Rinse and give it back the next week with the next delivery. I wish more grocery stores have this
Australia does it too.
Pretty much every northern European country has had it since the 80s. Nowadays we melt it into new packaging though, supposedly it requires even less energy. And you get money for turning them in :)
We used to, here in Finland, but I think now they crush them and reform them into new bottles. The things cost 20c/piece, so everyone returns them.
You mean you have to remove the plastic label before you throw the bottle into a recycling bin which gets dumped into a landfill never to be seen again.
And that's if they're lucky. There's also a decent chance it will end up piled up on some foreign beach/riverbank to slowly leach into the ocean.
Shhhh, if they don't know they still feel good about it
But, but, but, they're going to eventually mine all the plastic out of the landfills because at some point will be swimming in so much energy and time that turning it back into the little bit of oil that was used to make it Will be our sacred duty as humans. Tomorrow us will definitely mine all that back out and turn it back into oil right?
They should teach AI how to sort garbage and do it for us instead of making it create videos of pirate ships in a cup of coffee
But the pirates can sort the garbage.... Right??? Please tell me I am right.....
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