It's still a positive, at least if the recycling system works similar to in the EU. Here, food containers have fairly strict limits on what recycled waste can

It's still a positive, at least if the recycling system works similar to in the EU. Here, food containers have fairly strict limits on what recycled waste can be used to make them. Returned bottles and cans are clean enough to be made into new food packaging, but ordinary household recycling waste is not.