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The article is kind of hysterical, but has some interesting information in. I always wondered what to do with plastic bags and bottles and stuff in places where
by ftyers 4y ago
The article is kind of hysterical, but has some interesting information in. I always wondered what to do with plastic bags and bottles and stuff in places where there is no rubbish collection. Burning seems popular, but despite looking up DIY home incineration it seems like not much effort is being put into this.
I also wondered why there aren't deposits on plastic bottles like there are on glass bottles. In the end it should probably be up to the companies who produce them, like Coca Cola to deal with them, but there probably needs to be an incentive to return them.
- moconnor 4y agoHere in Germany there are deposits on plastic bottles for things like coke. The bottles are more sturdy and get re-used multiple times.
- ftyers 4y agoThat's cool, is it mandated by law or did it just work out as more economical?
- oblio 4y agoKnowing the Germans, it's a law.
- coding123 4y agoWhat happens if someone poops in the bottle and then recycles it. I guess that's just the American in me probably. Probably why those efforts die here.
- ftyers 4y agoI guess you'd smell it? And if not does it really matter? Probably you'd be surprised at how much you poop you consume, both your own and other people's or animal's.
- ThrowawayTestr 4y agoI imagine the bottles are cleaned before refilling.
- joseda-hg 4y agoEverything should be sterilized by the bottler before reusing, but I'm guessing that any bottle to suffer that destiny would be discarded either by the store owner, the pick up crew, or the bottling facility It's pretty similar in my country
- romski 4y agoPlastic and glass is ground up
- oblio 4y agoDoes it matter? You need to sterilize it anyway, because of the other million environmental factors.
- rtanks 4y agoI agree