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it's weird to read this while in east Africa, where Coca cola is still using plastic bottles that you can find *all over". The first world invest in robots to
by oriettaxx 4y ago
it's weird to read this while in east Africa, where Coca cola is still using plastic bottles that you can find *all over". The first world invest in robots to separate garbage, and in the 3rd a first world company cannot just use glass instead of plastic :(
https://talking-trash.com/ https://talking-trash.com/
- DoreenMichele 4y agoCan you add a little about why you want glass bottles in East Africa?
- oriettaxx 4y agoyes: I'm not an expert, but the following for me are pretty obvious 1. a glass bottle left in the field pollute much less than a plastic one 2. recycling a glass bottle has less environmental impact vs plastic But most of all I'm mad at the very well planned green-washing that made us think that somebody do recycle plastics in significant figures. I do know that in Italy, when a town burn plastic to produce energy, those figures end up in statistics as "recycled plastic": yes, they do recycle, no doubt, from plastic to electricity, but almost nobody are aware that recycling means burning the plastic just outside town. Take the beautiful Aegean see in Greece: many Islands have their "little secret", a hidden bay far away from tourist eyes, and just by the sea, where they have a landfill where they just burn everything: once every 3/4 days they add some petrol and just start the fire. Ask tourists, which carefully separate garbage with no need of robots, the following: "why do you choose plastic and not glass?" and they all answer: "because plastic is recycled, isn't?" In a Greek bay landfill I would prefer tons of glass bottles vs left over of plastic bottles.
- DoreenMichele 4y agoThank you.