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I've started to see boxes of water. They look like milk cartons.

• LaGrange 8y ago
  Those are not at all better. They're mixed materials. Much harder to "recycle," in practice even if collected, usually just burned.
  • Dylan16807 8y ago
    Not-recycled paper is an improvement over not-recycled plastic. The coating I don't know.
    • kmarc 8y ago
      Problem is, it's not paper. It's called [Tetra pack][1], and contains both paper, plastic and metal. Physical separation is virtually impossible (at scale), chemical separation is very environment-unfriendly. Unfortunately in Switzerland it is dumped to trash; in Easter-Europe it is collected for separation though. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetra_Pak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetra_Pak