Yeah it’s 2 different plastic types. They can’t be recycled together. It’s just performative nonsense that actually makes it more complicated to recycle bottles.
Yes and they are in fact separated during the recycling process you baboon. You know what can not be recycled? A bottle cap that is lost in natural environment, which is where plethora of them ended up
You are probably right. I used the word waste as in wasted, but what this solves is trash. Doesn't really matter which bin it goes in for this to work.
Yeah except it’s 2 different plastic types that have to be separated before any recycling is done. Performative bullshit. Meanwhile Europe is infested with roaches that need to be exterminated.
Separating the 2 materials is rather easy and already done in recycling plants. The bottle gets shredded and the chunks separated. The difference is that the cap doesn't get into the environment.
Yes they are different plastics but the caps can easily be lost and not accounted for if not connected. The 2 types of plastic are easily seperated when recycling because they make it connected. The only performative bullshit is you.
Yes. Bottle lids were the one of the most common types of plastic found washed up on beach shores. They did in fact get lost everywhere, and the legislation was effective in reducing plastic waste in the environment.
Well they were going to throw the bottle regardless.
We were already planning on implementing a law that would mandate the cap when returning bottles in Finland before this new bottlecap design came into effect. There were many bottles returned where the cap has been thrown away.
Fair enough, that's a reasonable explanation for keeping caps attached.
But if the design requires additional plastic on every bottle, has anyone actually quantified whether the reduction in discarded caps outweighs the additional plastic being produced?
I'm curious whether there's a demonstrated net environmental benefit here, rather than simply an assumption that attached caps must mean less waste.
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u/irn-bru-anonymous 6h ago
How exactly does it “reduce” waste. The bottle is still plastic. The cap is still there. Now there’s a bit more plastic being used per bottle. Yay.