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"Even a few spoonfuls of peanut butter left in a jar can contaminate a tonne of paper and make it unmarketable — destined for the dump. Same for that glob of yo
by danans 8y ago
"Even a few spoonfuls of peanut butter left in a jar can contaminate a tonne of paper and make it unmarketable — destined for the dump. Same for that glob of yogurt left in the bottom of the container."
The article seems to claim that the yogurt can contaminate clean paper that is mixed in, making the paper un-recyclable, not the plastic yogurt container itself.
Also, this appears to be a new thing, since China stopped accepting contaminated paper for recycling.
- mjevans 8y agoUnless it is a LARGE, clean, never touched food item like a box the paper should probably actually just go in to the compost stream anyway... I would actually welcome a far more limited* (and to recyclable types) number of plastics allowed in packaging and requirements that they also cannot be fused to other materials. The numbers should be REQUIRED to be /raised/ or /impressed/ to a large degree and be VERY LARGE on the two dimensional face as well. A 'nearly legally blind' person should be able to still tell where the logo is and understand it's content. The plastics / glasses binning should also assume they /are/ getting dirty consumer content and use an 'industrial' boiling water pot to dislodge and release the food waste. Such a processing step is more practical as part of the post-consumer input filter.