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I can count on one hand when I ever handed a plastic bottle without a cap back to recycling or to the store (we have deposits on everything and the cap is not i
by wink 4y ago
I can count on one hand when I ever handed a plastic bottle without a cap back to recycling or to the store (we have deposits on everything and the cap is not included). I think the only people I remember tossing them were coworkers on a construction site. I will admit we sometimes took them off to repurpose them, e.g. for mixing colors for painting, but then they were tossed in the normal trash, so this wouldn't change anything.
So either this is highly dependent on where you take those numbers or I will call complete bullshit.
- 323 4y agoYou are literally giving anecdotal evidence with N=1. > But the Beach Environmental Awareness Campaign Hawaii (B.E.A.C.H.) found that “plastic bottle caps are one of the top 10 items found during marine debris beach clean-ups and are the second most littered item after cigarette butts.” https://sustainability.weill.cornell.edu/recycling/bottle-caps-and-environment https://sustainability.weill.cornell.edu/recycling/bottle-ca... > The 2017 International Coastal Cleanup, an annual beach cleanup event run by ocean advocacy group Ocean Conservancy, reported that plastic bottle caps were the third most collected item worldwide https://resource.co/article/what-should-you-do-plastic-bottle-caps https://resource.co/article/what-should-you-do-plastic-bottl...
- wink 4y agoNo, not n=1. Every time I see cases of empty bottles (for example at the shop where I buy them, most of them on the spent cases are still on, if they sit in plain view), same with every person I know who I see drinking from a bottle. Also I live 800km from the sea, so maybe central Europe is simply different?