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We’ve been misled for so long into thinking this is a consumer problem that needs downstream solutions. Actually I think it’s a regulatory problem that needs up

• samstave 5y ago
  I agree, I have always thought that these biggest CPG (Consumer packaged goods) companies, oil and plastics companies should be required to have a larger % of their packaging as glass, paper, mycelium, etc. and they should be required to accept any and all used products containers and recycle them themselves. We think of milk men and the reusable coke bottle programs as archaic in the day of instant gratification from something that you then just throw away after single use. Milk companies, and the coke cleaning recycling program (in the Philippines) for example are good examples of a more closed loop packaging solution.