• riodoro1@lemmy.world
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    There is a patch of garbage on the pacific the size of a small continent but its still legal to sell single use plastic containers.

    How many years do these people think we have?

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      Yes, but now the soda bottles in that patch will have their caps attached. So that’s sort of, well, I suppose … you may have a point.

      More seriously I’m fully convinced that this cap attachment nonsense is purely to save coca cola et. al. further costs in recycling bottles. Like it’s still a small step forward, but it wouldn’t happen if corpos weren’t saving a dime.

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      Not long. That’s why we recycle. Part of that is these stupid hinges.

      I don’t like them, but we need them.

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        Plastic recycling is a scam mate. Most of the plastic things you throw out are gonna get burned or end up somewhere for ever.

        They even made the little symbols look like a recycling sign, so you can feel good about yourself at the store.

        Dont believe me?

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          The evil companies. Ah yes a recycle icon with numbers but you presume it’s fine. Nope. It’s literally just the type of plastic.

          :/. Corporates are evil.

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          Europe has laws that recycling companies have to state how much % per weight ends up wherever. They charge you in Germany a deposit of ~15 cent per single use plastic bottle and you have to return it in mint condition in special recycling machines to get that money back. I’ve heard that Austria wants to make that 25 cent over there in 2025 - that’s 30% of what a bottle of water costs in a German Aldi.

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            Why does anyone buy water in bottles? I mean if you get clean water in a tap its absolutely pointless.

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              My local tap water is disgusting. A filter might make it safe to drink, but nothing makes it stop tasting gross. I’ll cook with it and drink it with flavoring but I won’t just drink it by itself.

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              depends on your country, here in Mexico we don’t have tap water we need to buy water bottles or a water jug. I’m not sure why we don’t have tap water really 🤔

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              Some places do have truely awful tap water even if it is technically drinkable. I’ve been places where the tap water reeked of sulphur and no filter would take out the taste short of an RO filter. We always had to buy drinking water there. At the same time though we always bought water in gallon jugs rather than the individual bottles.

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          Ah yes, a YouTube video.

          Hope you ever find yourself in Western Europe, where we actually do recycle.

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            You do? As in you put plastics in a yellow bin from where it goes straight to the dump?

            Im from Poland btw. We also „recycle” here.

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              Dutchy here. Rotterdam specifically.

              PET is recycled as in: every supermarket has an drop off point, giving you back 25cnt for every large bottle, 15cnt for small and cans.

              Plastic in the general garbage is separated (not 100%, but still) and either separated (polystyrene is easy to detect and seperate for instance) or sold to companies that repurpose them (more and more of those white triangle things in the corners of roads are repurposed strengthened plastics now).

              I’m sure plenty will find its way to either landfill (that we don’t have much) or gets burnt. But it’s not as bad as the US, which was my point in the first place.

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            A YouTube video by Rollie Williams, mind you - Holder of a masters degree in climate science and policy from Colombia University.