As for soda and milk bottles, they weren't 'recycled' per se. But rather turned back in for deposit and then re-used again and again. When purchasing new product, if you didn't have bottles to turn in, you paid another deposit. @ds7675
@@ds7675 That's because there aren't really any manufacturers that recycle glass anymore. If no one is going to take the glass and recycle it, they aren't going to pick it up. It is cheaper and easier for the companies to just make new plastic.
@@nathanh6439 You’re right. And what plastics that I can recycle are very limited. I even go so far as to remove staples from catalogs, etc. so the paper can be recycled. I do my best.
I have a trash bin and a recycle bin. They don't separate the recyclable items. A friend of mine followed the truck to the dump. I have to pay for both bins
That's sick, you could try reducing and reusing instead of recycling and end your recycling subscription. I don't recycle but do the other 2 R's a lot.
Back in the day, in many countries, all manufacturers sold milk in standardized bottles so that people would wash and bring them back to a store to get some money, like a deposit. Then a manufacturer would wash them, sterilize and fill with milk again. This approach doesn't even need any recycling.
The legal process which forces settlements and change and building the scientific evidence behind them takes time. Yes, we've known for decades that recycling doesn't work (in addition to being a huge distraction, allowing individuals to feel that they're significantly participating in protecting the planet, getting them off the hook for actually significant action which might require painful life changes.) But for this finally to be getting through the courts now sounds about right. May we get standardization so that all single use plastics go into the same bin, all others in trash? Aluminum doesn't have this problem, as an alternative, simply make plastic more expensive with a waste tax or something.
@ disposable plastics is more of what I meant, not vehicle trim thats gonna last 30 years. However, there’s several bio options such as hemp as one example..
And they charge you for those plastic containers at the store. You're expected to get it back when you recycle. You don't. And you won't get a penny of that lawsuit either.
We also need Class Action lawsuits against the Health Insurance companies. By denying valid claims, they directly harm individuals (vs. the indirect harm caused by microplastic contamination).
No excuse for failing to protect people from health and safety hazards. There is no alternative to the right way. Anything manufactured should be easy to recycle or repurpose.
They need to start offering soda in glass recyclable bottles like they used to, do in the 1970s. It would also remind people what a serving is. Glass is recyclable. And thats alot of waste that will never make it into landfills. If we all do a little it can get better.
The cost to ship bottles made of glass , the added weight will make it costly. Truck , train , ship rates have gone up a lot. Also stores would have to brace shelving , or replace it to handle the weight . Those that take sports drinks or water on their walk or jog will hate it too !!
@@jonathanwoods9843 Yes, the comment they were replying to said to start offering soda in glass bottles. So, did you read the comment they were replying to? Did you?
Please people, instead of buying single-use water bottles, buy a water filter (e.g. a Brita). It'll save you money; the water tastes just as good; you may avoid ingesting micro plastics; and there's little waste.
For 8 years I've been separating aluminum, plastic, glass and, large amounts of cardboard for our company. 2 weeks ago I watched as all gets thrown in the same truck. Recycling nonsense in NJ.
In japan they recycle seven times because they understand the value of resources in america they abuse those resources. America needs to change its practices.But unfortunately when you have radical individuals that are running the country you can't get anything done Is correctly.
@fredflintstone2234 The problem. Its the greed in america because we have the infrastructure, and we have technology support, but they choose not to. Because it doesn't benefit them.
We had wax coverered paper milk cartons that worked wonderfully...no need for plastic. Butter was sold in waxed paper, as well. Cereal was packed in waxed paper and then boxed. Groceries were picked up in paper bags...with no complaints. Then suddenly Corporations changed to plastic.
The paper bags we getting now here in Colorado, are like tissue paper compared to what I recall as a child. I don't understand the lack of logic in not making a proper paper bag. Cardboard and paper recycling "appears" to be a proven method these days. Or, is that a corporate lie as well?
It all starts with us. Be the change you want to see. Stop buying plastics wherever you can. I stopped using shampoo and went back to using soap bars I buy from a natural food store. Started using soap sheets for my dishwasher and clothes washer. Support companies who are trying to make a difference.
I hear you but it does require us to force the major plastic producers and bottling companies to use something else. It's hardly viable for us to completely boycott plastic given the current state of things.
@c0l0jar0 we have to start somewhere. We may never completely rid ourselves of plastic use, but limiting our daily use wherever possible is the first step. Choosing smart products from the shelf when buying at grocery stores will force companies to make changes. It's all about the bottom line.
So, is any country doing it right? In Scandinavia they claim a 99% recycling rate, so is that all bs too? & what's the solution, besides requiring plastic manufacturers to buy back their plastics (which I'm all for), but will never happen in our oligarchy?
First off there have been documentaries since the 90s that we don't recycle plastic. This should be common knowledge by now. Second EVERYTHING contains plastic. Third glass is not being recycled because of weight. The cost and environmental impact to transport glass to a facility is more harmful than just putting it in a landfill.
there's a very good reason I save glass jars. this was years in coming. I also add that you can reuse plastic bottles for 3D printing, but the machine to convert it into feedstock is thousands of dollars!!
Canada ships all HDPE plastic to the states for recycling which i know gets shipped out overseas. Day and ross and r & l carriers are the logistics chain to move the majority of it south
I want to see a study on how recycling plastic might be a major contributor to the microplastics pollution. anybody that has worked with regrind in the plastics industry will know exactly why it could be a major cause.
As a way to encourage better corporate behavior, we should tax corporate profits at twice the level of individual tax rates. Corporate profits seldom make their way into local community economies. To encourage corporations to support the economy, they can avoid this higher tax by paying it to their employees.
A dairy factory in New Zealand has started a campaign to bottle it's milk in reusable metal bottles, there is an initial cost for the first purchase but is refunded on return if you don't buy another bottle or the return is deducted from your next purchase resulting in a lower than standard milk price purchase. The cost to the dairy company is a net saving as it does not need to buy new plastic bottles only wash the returns as the trucks that deliver the fresh milk return the empties. There is also a coffee shop that is promoting 'Bring your own cup' to reduce the use of single use cups & if you do bring your own cup the coffee is sold at a reduced price. Real workable solutions that save the environment & consumer money.
*Companies can and should focus on less profits and more responsibilities, but at what point do we also have to curb our consumption and focus on growing more of what we eat. We need to change as a society.*
I come from a time when everything was in glass bottles. We seemed to do pretty good with glass. No environmental affects that I know of. How hard would it be to turn back to glass? Expensive? A little higher cost seems to be better than the affects of plastics.
In the 90’s and early 2,000s I worked for a bag forming company where we made the plastic bag inserts that would go inside the powdered sugar box and we would recycle the plastic bags that went inside the box. We also recycled the paper bags that we made that were waste.
Anything can be recycled It only depends on how much effort you want to put into it .All plastic included Don't believe me ? look at other countries they make bricks out of recycled plastic and build walls and homes .If that car part was plastic you can reprocess it and make a new car part .It's the same for all plastic your laundry soup bottle .It's the investment to get it all started that is the major problem .and it could create 10s of 1,000s of jobs and more .
Why can't California place a block on non recyclable plastics?! We can do this in steps just like what we are doing for cars. If we can faze out all non recyclables here, then other states will fallow us and do the same.
@garyszewc3339 the manufacturer should be forced to recycle their own plastic. By the way, local trash companies don't recycle anything. They only sort materials, and most materials end up in third world countries.
I was born in time of glass, few years after I was born everything went to plastic and I remember I got really sick. I didn't ever tell my parents, because I didn't know what I was feeling. Now it all makes sense.
Part of the lawsuit that they weren't talking about was that soda companies and stuff say it's easy for us. The consumer to recycle it not for recycling companies to recycle it
This is so stupid. The plastics are manufactured to be recyclable, but the trash companies don't want to spend the money, so they just dump it in landfills. It's like suing a car manufacturer for every speeding ticket that drivers get.
Any product sold in US that is health hazardous should be taxed accordingly. Alcohol Cigarettes Sugar Products in plastic containers. Just to name a few. Tax money can be used for 'Medicare for all', which all will need if the garbage is continually sold and consumed.
Not all products can be recycled and are considered trash. In California, we pay a recycling fee for every bottle used for drinks, and the California government pockets that money. It is the consumer who is responsible for recycling the items or trash them.
This is another frivolous lawsuit, most likely from greedy lawyers who are looking for a nice juicy payday. For anyone who cared to pay attention, it's been well known for decades that most plastics are not recycled, but they ALL are recyclable. I've told friends for years that they are actually doing more harm to the environment by putting plastics into a recycle bin. It's additional wasted energy to usually transport it to the same destination, and sometimes it gets shipped to other parts of the world.
Only plastics 1, 2, & 5 are actually recyclable. You could make an argument for type 4 (mostly plastic bags), however realistically it's not an option.
I never understood why trash and recycling don't come together to create our necessary infrastructure as a team rather than separately. I miss using only 1 can for pickup - just sort everything out together 🤷🏼♀️
Governments ban plastic grocery bags maybe ban plastic bottles. How about we shop like they did in the 1950s/early 1960s? Glass, metal, paper, cardboard. etc.
You're suing a company for providing the raw materials? That's ridiculous. I prefer glass and am willing to pay the extra to have it. That said, it would have a monstrous economic effect if you got rid of it.
In Germany there were same legends. First they didn’t have capacities, then the mixed garbage was to “wet” and need “fuel”, so they used paper and plastics to be able to burn it (in most european countries garbage is burned and there are no new dumping grounds). Newer is that the main plastic materials PE, PP, PS need to be separated and the color pigments disturb some spectroscopic identification. And Germany they still don’t have the capacity for all collected plastics, so they were shipped to recyclers all over the world like Turkey or China (which stopped it some years ago). Many fluid packages were propagated as recycle able, but are made of mixed materials like paper, PE, aluminium etc and they have no cheap method to separate them…. But let’s not forget, that’s it’s us, the consumers that buy so much stuff online, that the amount of plastic and paper rises and rises…We need to change of stuff we buy and try to start buy less overpacked food.
Thats all on the recycling crowd, the whole thing was nothing more than a money grab. Blame the companies responsible, the ones making the plastic bottles, oil companies only supply the oil.
The average milk bottle in the UK had dimples in them to log how many times they were reused and likely turnaround times. The average use was 14 times but with much less transportation as milk was delivered locally on electric floats for reduced noise so they could start rounds before 7 am . Glass bottles would be much less carbon intensive if the heat energy from manufacturing and resmelting could go on district heating. Much of the waste plastic in the UK goes to incineration marketed as 'energy from waste' to make it sound greener.
We did pretty well with glass bottles for 100 years, no PFAS, no aftertaste. Easy to recycle
Easy to reuse, not that easy to recycle, especially if it's mixed with other glass items or broken glass.
Ever been to a public beach that allows glass bottles?
@@jaym9846 Cans...they just work
Paper Bags also.
I'm guessing the process of making glass is a lot more EXPENSIVE compared to plastic and thus we have the reason.....GREED!
Bring back glass bottles
My town won’t recycle clear glass anymore.
As for soda and milk bottles, they weren't 'recycled' per se. But rather turned back in for deposit and then re-used again and again. When purchasing new product, if you didn't have bottles to turn in, you paid another deposit. @ds7675
@@ds7675 That's because there aren't really any manufacturers that recycle glass anymore. If no one is going to take the glass and recycle it, they aren't going to pick it up. It is cheaper and easier for the companies to just make new plastic.
And barbershop tooth pulling!
@@nathanh6439 You’re right. And what plastics that I can recycle are very limited. I even go so far as to remove staples from catalogs, etc. so the paper can be recycled. I do my best.
So can I sue them for all the years of my time wasted
I have a trash bin and a recycle bin. They don't separate the recyclable items. A friend of mine followed the truck to the dump. I have to pay for both bins
That's sick, you could try reducing and reusing instead of recycling and end your recycling subscription. I don't recycle but do the other 2 R's a lot.
@Pheoniex The city charges anyway
Another bunch of corrupted CEOs
they could end up like that corrupt health insurance dude
This lawsuit shouldv'e been done ages ago. Glad it came nonetheless.
Back in the day, in many countries, all manufacturers sold milk in standardized bottles so that people would wash and bring them back to a store to get some money, like a deposit. Then a manufacturer would wash them, sterilize and fill with milk again. This approach doesn't even need any recycling.
Glass bottles were and still are better they are 100% recyclable and the waste from them will never harm the environment.
And they still don't get recycled.
This story is 20 years too late. Where have you been?
The legal process which forces settlements and change and building the scientific evidence behind them takes time. Yes, we've known for decades that recycling doesn't work (in addition to being a huge distraction, allowing individuals to feel that they're significantly participating in protecting the planet, getting them off the hook for actually significant action which might require painful life changes.) But for this finally to be getting through the courts now sounds about right. May we get standardization so that all single use plastics go into the same bin, all others in trash? Aluminum doesn't have this problem, as an alternative, simply make plastic more expensive with a waste tax or something.
@@JeffreyGoddin lol more taxes isn't going to fix this.
Anyone that looked into recycling realized it doesn’t get recycled
its all done by corruption
Glass needs to be the standard, plastic ban completely.
What are they going to use to put your car together
@ disposable plastics is more of what I meant, not vehicle trim thats gonna last 30 years. However, there’s several bio options such as hemp as one example..
And they charge you for those plastic containers at the store. You're expected to get it back when you recycle. You don't. And you won't get a penny of that lawsuit either.
We also need Class Action lawsuits against the Health Insurance companies. By denying valid claims, they directly harm individuals (vs. the indirect harm caused by microplastic contamination).
No excuse for failing to protect people from health and safety hazards.
There is no alternative to the right way.
Anything manufactured should be easy to recycle or repurpose.
Some governments are burning plastic for fuel. They collect the smoke and fumes and use this for manufacturing concerns.
We've only been recycling for more than 30 years..... now my child's body has plastic particles through out it.... we need more choices.
They need to start offering soda in glass recyclable bottles like they used to, do in the 1970s. It would also remind people what a serving is. Glass is recyclable. And thats alot of waste that will never make it into landfills. If we all do a little it can get better.
The cost to ship bottles made of glass , the added weight will make it costly. Truck , train , ship rates have gone up a lot. Also stores would have to brace shelving , or replace it to handle the weight . Those that take sports drinks or water on their walk or jog will hate it too !!
@@thesink5723Did anybody say eliminate plastic bottles? Huh? Did they say that?
@@jonathanwoods9843 Yes, the comment they were replying to said to start offering soda in glass bottles. So, did you read the comment they were replying to? Did you?
@@thesink5723 oh no the stock price
Aluminum seems to work well. Or are we being lied to about recycling that, too?
Please people, instead of buying single-use water bottles, buy a water filter (e.g. a Brita). It'll save you money; the water tastes just as good; you may avoid ingesting micro plastics; and there's little waste.
Hate to break it to you but your brita water filter,,,,,,,, IS MADE OF PLASTIC
For 8 years I've been separating aluminum, plastic, glass and, large amounts of cardboard for our company. 2 weeks ago I watched as all gets thrown in the same truck. Recycling nonsense in NJ.
Try Florida. They started doing pick up, got rid of the deposit locations, and then removed pick up. Lot of good it was doing anyways.
In japan they recycle seven times because they understand the value of resources in america they abuse those resources. America needs to change its practices.But unfortunately when you have radical individuals that are running the country you can't get anything done Is correctly.
Unfortunately it’s not just us. The rest of the world doesn’t really recycle either.
@fredflintstone2234 The problem.
Its the greed in america because we have the infrastructure, and we have technology support, but they choose not to. Because it doesn't benefit them.
We had wax coverered paper milk cartons that worked wonderfully...no need for plastic. Butter was sold in waxed paper, as well. Cereal was packed in waxed paper and then boxed. Groceries were picked up in paper bags...with no complaints. Then suddenly Corporations changed to plastic.
The paper bags we getting now here in Colorado, are like tissue paper compared to what I recall as a child. I don't understand the lack of logic in not making a proper paper bag. Cardboard and paper recycling "appears" to be a proven method these days. Or, is that a corporate lie as well?
I’m shocked, utterly SHOCKED, that oil and gas companies would LIE. No! Not THEM! 😮 😏
It all starts with us. Be the change you want to see. Stop buying plastics wherever you can. I stopped using shampoo and went back to using soap bars I buy from a natural food store. Started using soap sheets for my dishwasher and clothes washer. Support companies who are trying to make a difference.
I hear you but it does require us to force the major plastic producers and bottling companies to use something else. It's hardly viable for us to completely boycott plastic given the current state of things.
@c0l0jar0 we have to start somewhere. We may never completely rid ourselves of plastic use, but limiting our daily use wherever possible is the first step. Choosing smart products from the shelf when buying at grocery stores will force companies to make changes. It's all about the bottom line.
So, is any country doing it right? In Scandinavia they claim a 99% recycling rate, so is that all bs too? & what's the solution, besides requiring plastic manufacturers to buy back their plastics (which I'm all for), but will never happen in our oligarchy?
Great question?
Plastic is easily recycled but there needs to be more profit in it before the U.S. really gets into it like other countries around the world.
Corporations scorch earth policy for profit is insane
First off there have been documentaries since the 90s that we don't recycle plastic. This should be common knowledge by now. Second EVERYTHING contains plastic. Third glass is not being recycled because of weight. The cost and environmental impact to transport glass to a facility is more harmful than just putting it in a landfill.
How do you think billionaires get rich
Plastic beer bottles are gross
Greenwashing at its core.
What happened to biodegradable plastic? I guess it doesn't really work or costs too much like making sea water drinkable.
Yes the pollution generated through their products
there's a very good reason I save glass jars. this was years in coming. I also add that you can reuse plastic bottles for 3D printing, but the machine to convert it into feedstock is thousands of dollars!!
Canada ships all HDPE plastic to the states for recycling which i know gets shipped out overseas. Day and ross and r & l carriers are the logistics chain to move the majority of it south
I want to see a study on how recycling plastic might be a major contributor to the microplastics pollution. anybody that has worked with regrind in the plastics industry will know exactly why it could be a major cause.
As a way to encourage better corporate behavior, we should tax corporate profits at twice the level of individual tax rates.
Corporate profits seldom make their way into local community economies.
To encourage corporations to support the economy, they can avoid this higher tax by paying it to their employees.
Trump and Elon aren’t going to tax any big corporations unless they are ones competing against something they own.
A dairy factory in New Zealand has started a campaign to bottle it's milk in reusable metal bottles, there is an initial cost for the first purchase but is refunded on return if you don't buy another bottle or the return is deducted from your next purchase resulting in a lower than standard milk price purchase. The cost to the dairy company is a net saving as it does not need to buy new plastic bottles only wash the returns as the trucks that deliver the fresh milk return the empties. There is also a coffee shop that is promoting 'Bring your own cup' to reduce the use of single use cups & if you do bring your own cup the coffee is sold at a reduced price. Real workable solutions that save the environment & consumer money.
*Companies can and should focus on less profits and more responsibilities, but at what point do we also have to curb our consumption and focus on growing more of what we eat. We need to change as a society.*
wow. 2024 is still revealing till the last min... smh
I come from a time when everything was in glass bottles. We seemed to do pretty good with glass. No environmental affects that I know of. How hard would it be to turn back to glass? Expensive? A little higher cost seems to be better than the affects of plastics.
In the 90’s and early 2,000s I worked for a bag forming company where we made the plastic bag inserts that would go inside the powdered sugar box and we would recycle the plastic bags that went inside the box. We also recycled the paper bags that we made that were waste.
Like send them to a recycling facility that throws it in the dump?
@ well with the plastic inserts we used the waste to do start ups for the extruder so we would not use as much of the raw material.
It is about time
stop buying plastic
Let's get Mario on this case, Luigi already did his part.
A class action lawsuit for all human beings for the problem of microplastics in our body would force these companies to change behaviours
So instead of looking to get a pay day in court, Why don't you help solve into solutions what your gripe is leading too !
It sounds like your problem that its not getting recycled. All i can do is put it in the bin and then you take it.
Anything can be recycled It only depends on how much effort you want to put into it .All plastic included Don't believe me ? look at other countries they make bricks out of recycled plastic and build walls and homes .If that car part was plastic you can reprocess it and make a new car part .It's the same for all plastic your laundry soup bottle .It's the investment to get it all started that is the major problem .and it could create 10s of 1,000s of jobs and more .
Great! More money for lawyers and lawsuits
Glass bottles(!) Load Period
Why is it always Dow and DuPont?
Now we're suing companies for providing raw materials? Give me a break.
Exactly. It's not their fault that it's not properly recycled.
Why can't California place a block on non recyclable plastics?! We can do this in steps just like what we are doing for cars. If we can faze out all non recyclables here, then other states will fallow us and do the same.
Almost all plastics are recyclable. They just don't do it. It's the fault of your local trash company, not the manufacturer.
@garyszewc3339 the manufacturer should be forced to recycle their own plastic. By the way, local trash companies don't recycle anything. They only sort materials, and most materials end up in third world countries.
Executives who harm millions of people and the future see no consequence for their actions .. then petty criminals thrown in jail
It ends up overseas because some plastics aren’t recyclable. There’s a Netflix special about this if people are interested.
Bro if they could invent a mass-produced machine or center that could turn all that plastic into 3d filament things would be awesome
Energy CEOs are next
Blah blah blah, we already know this. And nobody does anything to change anything.
Way past time!
I was born in time of glass, few years after I was born everything went to plastic and I remember I got really sick. I didn't ever tell my parents, because I didn't know what I was feeling. Now it all makes sense.
The Swedes understood this long ago. So they burn it for electricity. Scrubbers can remove the toxic smoke.
Thinking all my life I was helping out. Yeah helped people get rich was all.
Most people know they recycle way less than they claim but 6% is ridiculous
Part of the lawsuit that they weren't talking about was that soda companies and stuff say it's easy for us. The consumer to recycle it not for recycling companies to recycle it
I only buy canned and glass
And those don't go to recycling facilities either.
Pesticide + water = Pepsi
Pepsi contains more than just water and caffeine.
THANK YOU FOR THAT CLARIFICATION
This is so stupid. The plastics are manufactured to be recyclable, but the trash companies don't want to spend the money, so they just dump it in landfills. It's like suing a car manufacturer for every speeding ticket that drivers get.
In Akron, Ohio, the city will only take plastic bottles and jugs, even though many items are labeled with a 1 or 2.
Okay so what about the wind mills that this government say it helps the environment when they have to replace the blades they sit there or bury them
Still less pollution than fossil fuels.
Nobody said it was perfect. But it's a helluva lot better than pumping vast amounts of carbon and pollutants into our atmosphere.
California charges us a tax on plastic bottles that is very hard to retrieve. They are in on this.
Any product sold in US that is health hazardous should be taxed accordingly.
Alcohol
Cigarettes
Sugar
Products in plastic containers.
Just to name a few.
Tax money can be used for 'Medicare for all', which all will need if the garbage is continually sold and consumed.
lol I’ve been telling people this for years and they said I didn’t separate because I’m lazy…
every thing should be glass
Changing a light bulb is easy, if you can't do it, that's not on the manufacturer.
If the resin identification code isn’t a 1 or 2, it simply goes to the landfill.
Not all products can be recycled and are considered trash. In California, we pay a recycling fee for every bottle used for drinks, and the California government pockets that money. It is the consumer who is responsible for recycling the items or trash them.
This is another frivolous lawsuit, most likely from greedy lawyers who are looking for a nice juicy payday. For anyone who cared to pay attention, it's been well known for decades that most plastics are not recycled, but they ALL are recyclable.
I've told friends for years that they are actually doing more harm to the environment by putting plastics into a recycle bin. It's additional wasted energy to usually transport it to the same destination, and sometimes it gets shipped to other parts of the world.
Only plastics 1, 2, & 5 are actually recyclable. You could make an argument for type 4 (mostly plastic bags), however realistically it's not an option.
I never understood why trash and recycling don't come together to create our necessary infrastructure as a team rather than separately. I miss using only 1 can for pickup - just sort everything out together 🤷🏼♀️
Even if glass doesn’t get recycled it just breaks down into sand.
How about the DOJ getting involved
Instead of just companies charge the deciders too or nothing changes no deterrents.
The recycling or not of plastics has nothing to do with the climate. It does however severely impact our environment and our health.
How about this? Wow!
What! We sorting for nothing on top of being lied too! How do we join the lawsuit
They have the technology to make biodegradable plastic but refuse because they don't want to pay for it.
Governments ban plastic grocery bags maybe ban plastic bottles. How about we shop like they did in the 1950s/early 1960s? Glass, metal, paper, cardboard. etc.
The rest of it seems to be chopped up and ends up in the ocean.
well... can't blame us no more!
We are destroying ourselves. 😢
PYROLYSIS
Py-Rol-Y-Sis
You cook the plastic into fuel oil
Why can't we go back to glass,cleaner&truly recyclible. I should have checked comments first, sorry folks
If not the landfill it ends up in the ocean. It's pathetic
You're suing a company for providing the raw materials? That's ridiculous. I prefer glass and am willing to pay the extra to have it. That said, it would have a monstrous economic effect if you got rid of it.
In Germany there were same legends. First they didn’t have capacities, then the mixed garbage was to “wet” and need “fuel”, so they used paper and plastics to be able to burn it (in most european countries garbage is burned and there are no new dumping grounds). Newer is that the main plastic materials PE, PP, PS need to be separated and the color pigments disturb some spectroscopic identification. And Germany they still don’t have the capacity for all collected plastics, so they were shipped to recyclers all over the world like Turkey or China (which stopped it some years ago). Many fluid packages were propagated as recycle able, but are made of mixed materials like paper, PE, aluminium etc and they have no cheap method to separate them….
But let’s not forget, that’s it’s us, the consumers that buy so much stuff online, that the amount of plastic and paper rises and rises…We need to change of stuff we buy and try to start buy less overpacked food.
Thats all on the recycling crowd, the whole thing was nothing more than a money grab. Blame the companies responsible, the ones making the plastic bottles, oil companies only supply the oil.
And we're surprised?!?!
Everyone knows this
The average milk bottle in the UK had dimples in them to log how many times they were reused and likely turnaround times. The average use was 14 times but with much less transportation as milk was delivered locally on electric floats for reduced noise so they could start rounds before 7 am .
Glass bottles would be much less carbon intensive if the heat energy from manufacturing and resmelting could go on district heating.
Much of the waste plastic in the UK goes to incineration marketed as 'energy from waste' to make it sound greener.
Yet law enforcement can make false claims to aquire probable cause! It seems to only be OK when it comes to revenue collection by government
Why not gass?