As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling
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#2The packaging industry is going to fight tooth and nail so it can continue to spew out single use plastics for every single sales transaction that occurs.
There's big money involved.
Imagine the costs to the packaging industry if it was no longer allowed to create infinite garbage.
I do find it strange that there seems to be zero noticeable social pressure on bottled drink companies to stop using single use plastic bottles.
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#3The packaging industry is going to fight tooth and nail so it can continue to spew out single use plastics for every single sales transaction that occurs. There's big money involved. Imagine the costs to the packaging industry if it was no longer allowed to create infinite garbage. I do find it strange that there seems to be zero noticeable social pressure on bottled drink companies to stop using single use plastic b…
It would create infinite other forms of garbage that people throw in the trash anyway.
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#4The packaging industry is going to fight tooth and nail so it can continue to spew out single use plastics for every single sales transaction that occurs. There's big money involved. Imagine the costs to the packaging industry if it was no longer allowed to create infinite garbage. I do find it strange that there seems to be zero noticeable social pressure on bottled drink companies to stop using single use plastic b…
As a counterpoint, single use packaging is a godsend to people with food allergies.
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#5The packaging industry is going to fight tooth and nail so it can continue to spew out single use plastics for every single sales transaction that occurs. There's big money involved. Imagine the costs to the packaging industry if it was no longer allowed to create infinite garbage. I do find it strange that there seems to be zero noticeable social pressure on bottled drink companies to stop using single use plastic b…
It would create infinite other forms of garbage that people throw in the trash anyway.
Plastic lasts essential forever - aluminum and steel do not
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#6The packaging industry is going to fight tooth and nail so it can continue to spew out single use plastics for every single sales transaction that occurs. There's big money involved. Imagine the costs to the packaging industry if it was no longer allowed to create infinite garbage. I do find it strange that there seems to be zero noticeable social pressure on bottled drink companies to stop using single use plastic b…
It would create infinite other forms of garbage that people throw in the trash anyway.
Not all forms of garbage are equally harmful to the environment.
We should enforce prioritizing producing garbage that provides nutrition to the things it passes through. Plastics do the opposite, to the extent of killing the animals mistaking it for food.
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#7The packaging industry is going to fight tooth and nail so it can continue to spew out single use plastics for every single sales transaction that occurs. There's big money involved. Imagine the costs to the packaging industry if it was no longer allowed to create infinite garbage. I do find it strange that there seems to be zero noticeable social pressure on bottled drink companies to stop using single use plastic b…
It would create infinite other forms of garbage that people throw in the trash anyway.
Single-used cardboard wrappings for non-perishables don't have nearly as much impact on the environment as plastic, even if just thrown away.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
It would create infinite other forms of garbage that people throw in the trash anyway.
Plastic lasts essential forever - aluminum and steel do not
In countries with good waste management I assume they are burned if they are not recycled. Other containers such as paper might sometimes even be worse as it will cost more energy to produce them than plastic.
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#9The packaging industry is going to fight tooth and nail so it can continue to spew out single use plastics for every single sales transaction that occurs. There's big money involved. Imagine the costs to the packaging industry if it was no longer allowed to create infinite garbage. I do find it strange that there seems to be zero noticeable social pressure on bottled drink companies to stop using single use plastic b…
It would create infinite other forms of garbage that people throw in the trash anyway.
I'm no packaging expert, however we did innovate ourselves in to this mess, it seems reasonable we may be able to innovate ourselves out of it.
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#10This is a market opportunity to come up with less costly systems that can operate at slim margins and with scale.
Recycling will never be the greatest of businesses. However the scale of demand in a country as large as the US is extraordinary. 5% margins at $100 billion in sales is ultimately a giant, $60-$80 billion market cap business. That's the kind of opportunity this presents for an enterprise that can quickly move to be the solution to the post China recycling problem.