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eli5: The bottle is PET and is easily and commonly recycled, if it actually makes it to the recycling facility. About 30% of PET sold in the US actually gets

eli5: The bottle is PET and is easily and commonly recycled, if it actually makes it to the recycling facility. About 30% of PET sold in the US actually gets recycled. It's the clear soda bottle plastic. The cap was previously 99% PP and 1% Silicone and was not recyclable at all. The cap is now 100% PP and therefore recyclable in theory, but in practice there are limited facilities that can recycle PP.

Mistletoe 3y ago
Do we honestly with a straight face tell ourselves that consumers are going to remove this cap before recycling and place them in the right bins or there is a recycling facility somewhere with workers removing caps from ketchup bottles? It’s a ludicrous greenwashing idea from the get go. I love the idea of recycling but I just don’t do it anymore when I realized my city’s single stream recycling was likely just ending up being shipped to Asia with fossil fuels and dumped in the ocean eventually and adding to the Pacific plastic gyre. Burying it in a landfill seems highly more optimal than that.
- sandos 3y ago
  Works in the EU. I wonder how the cultures can be so different!
  - wolverine876 3y ago
    Does the EU have reactionaries who deny anything and everything is possible?
  - Mistletoe 3y ago
    https://www.europeanscientist.com/en/environment/plastic-for-recycling-from-europe-ends-up-in-asian-waters/ https://www.europeanscientist.com/en/environment/plastic-for... >They discovered that a massive 46 per cent of European separated plastic waste is exported outside the country of origin.
coryrc 3y ago
It doesn't matter in Seattle, it's too small for the machines to sort. Only recyclable lids over 3 inches are allowed. And if you can't even recycle it in Seattle...
asadotzler 3y ago
but the 30% is the tip of the spear of a scam so fuck them because plastic recycling is a joke and they've put the burden and blame on us for failing when they never had the science or the tools to do it at scale and won't any time soon. that you're so easily sucked into their scam with selective statistics is sad but don't spread your imaginary industry to others. got an STD, keep it to yourself. this is no different.
- buildsjets 3y ago
  Are you off your medication? Do you need help?

Mistletoe 3y ago

Do we honestly with a straight face tell ourselves that consumers are going to remove this cap before recycling and place them in the right bins or there is a recycling facility somewhere with workers removing caps from ketchup bottles? It’s a ludicrous greenwashing idea from the get go. I love the idea of recycling but I just don’t do it anymore when I realized my city’s single stream recycling was likely just ending up being shipped to Asia with fossil fuels and dumped in the ocean eventually and adding to the Pacific plastic gyre. Burying it in a landfill seems highly more optimal than that.

sandos 3y ago
Works in the EU. I wonder how the cultures can be so different!
- wolverine876 3y ago
  Does the EU have reactionaries who deny anything and everything is possible?
- Mistletoe 3y ago
  https://www.europeanscientist.com/en/environment/plastic-for-recycling-from-europe-ends-up-in-asian-waters/ https://www.europeanscientist.com/en/environment/plastic-for... >They discovered that a massive 46 per cent of European separated plastic waste is exported outside the country of origin.

coryrc 3y ago

It doesn't matter in Seattle, it's too small for the machines to sort. Only recyclable lids over 3 inches are allowed. And if you can't even recycle it in Seattle...

asadotzler 3y ago

but the 30% is the tip of the spear of a scam so fuck them because plastic recycling is a joke and they've put the burden and blame on us for failing when they never had the science or the tools to do it at scale and won't any time soon. that you're so easily sucked into their scam with selective statistics is sad but don't spread your imaginary industry to others. got an STD, keep it to yourself. this is no different.

buildsjets 3y ago
Are you off your medication? Do you need help?