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They can all be recycled in a much more meaningful way than plastic. Paper can biodegrade. Empty metal and glass bottles are easy to use as raw materials.
by QuercusMax 2y ago
They can all be recycled in a much more meaningful way than plastic. Paper can biodegrade. Empty metal and glass bottles are easy to use as raw materials.
- RetroTechie 2y agoGlass bottles can be re-used as is (like ~20..50 roundtrips or so in consumer <-> supermarket context), before recycling even comes into the picture.
- petre 2y agoYes but they're heavy and generate CO2 from transportation. During communism we used to recycle all food and drink glass containers, but one would only get a few glass shapes and a few jar shapes. They only took back the containers clean and without labels. Most of the work was washing off the paper labels and bone glue. Kids were earning ice cream money doing the cleaning and recycling.
- kgabis 2y agoYou can, and often do, reuse plastic bottles. Water dispensers are very popular in some places and they use recyclable 19l plastic bottles. Glass is just too heavy and fragile for transporting water and if I understand correctly metal still needs plastic lining so that it doesn't react with fluids.