We just need thousands more little steps. It all adds up. Like the whole plastic straws debacle. While mocked, it’s one more little step.
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squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 day ago
PET bottle recycling is the only part of plastics recycling that actually works. Making sure the bottle caps are also correctly returned to recycling plants is a good goal. Also it makes picking up litter a little easier, because now you only need to pick up one thing instead of two.
Btw, this is why clothing/bags/… made out of recycled plastic bottles is actually a terrible idea, because once the PET is out of the bottle recycling stream it is permanently removed from this recycling loop and new PET needs to be produced to compensate.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 day ago
squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah, the big problem is that each of these steps takes monumental effort while yielding only very little result.
At the current pace, new areas of plastic waste generation are added much faster than old areas are removed.
While we were busy banning plastic straws and plastic bags and stuck the cap onto the bottle, the plastic garbage production industry added thousands new types of unrecyclable products.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t disagree.
Nariom@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
while i can appreciate the goal and potential result, those attached caps are terribly impractical, i wish they’d find a better solution
squaresinger@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Do you know that these caps can be overextended? They have a second open position, where they are opened at ~180°. At that position they don’t flop back closed and are quite well out of the way.