Comment on ‘Huge disappointment’ as UK delays bottle deposit plan and excludes glass

• Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Got a source for that as they havr collection bins at all tips and clearly put a lot of effort into this. I’d be saddened to find out it’s a PR exercise.

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  • Sizzler@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s thin layer of cardboard, plastic and metal glued together. Burn and reclaim the metal maybe but as a County Council Recycling Officer in a previous position, I honestly hate how they’ve avoided the spotlight. Honestly plain plastic bottles are better than them. It’s all PR and soon enough the truth will out.

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    • Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I did some looking around. Apparently the paper is washed out and recycled, the plastic and metal becomes polyaluminium which is downcycled into single use products that then end up in landfill. So not ideal but not incinerated. Tetra Pak’s promo video is interesting in that regard as they show the process with the paper being recycled but conveniently forget to mention what happens to the polyaluminium. That video also says the cartons can be shredded and turned into board for construction purposes but doesn’t say how much of that ends up bring used in this way.

      It definitely feels like someone needs to do more digging into this.

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      • Sizzler@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        By my own guesstimate 95% of tetra ends up in the bin. There is something funky going in.

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