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Pringles tube tries to wake from 'recycling nightmare'

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Re: Pringles tube tries to wake from 'recycling nightmare'

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Post by marcosdumay »

ZeroGravitas wrote: post #14

Recycling mentioned on Hacker News always depresses me. The way problems with it are treated as fundamentally unfixable always strikes me as against the site's ethos, yet people love pointing them out. Recycling just gets dumped in landfill! Ok, lets ban that. But, actually, its more environmentally friendly to landfill it! Are you sure? Science doesnt really agree. But anyway, can we make recycling more efficient? N…

Hum... I do not disagree exactly, but, there is simply no rush to fix landfill.

There's a rush to fix climate change, species extinctions and habitat losses, environment pollution and a huge number of problems.

Landfill can easily wait for a century or two. So why take focus from the hanging problems and place into it?

Re: Pringles tube tries to wake from 'recycling nightmare'

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Post by mason55 »

Mediterraneo10 wrote: post #72
andrepd wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your "chips model" works perfectly well for thousands of products. Want detergent? Bring a bottle to a machine that fills it up rather than taking home a brand new plastic bottle every time. Ditto for fruits and vegetables. Biscuits. Candy. Anything that doesn't need a plastic bag for health and safety reasons.

How would fill-your-own-bottle work with online shopping and home delivery, which more and more people are doing even for groceries?

You could do it like the milk men where you put out your old container and they bring you a new one. Instead of refilling it yourself the used one goes back to be refilled at the factory or whatever.

Re: Pringles tube tries to wake from 'recycling nightmare'

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Post by bena »

Ensorceled wrote: post #16

We need to focus on the second R, reuse. I have mason jars that my grandmother and then my mother used for pickling. The only waste is the rubber ring which needs to be replaced occasionally and THAT could be recycled. Many of these bottles have been used for 80+ years now. I have a few Ball jars which my GREAT grandmother used 100+ years ago. Beer bottles in Canada are reused dozens of times and are recyclable (brow…

What makes colored glass more able to be recycled than clear glass? I'm curious, my intuition says it would be the opposite as I assume colored glass has other stuff in the glass to make it colored.

Re: Pringles tube tries to wake from 'recycling nightmare'

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Post by margo209320 »

masklinn wrote: post #15
chongli wrote: post #6

I love Pringles tubes. We reuse them all over the place around the house. Never really thought of recycling them. Seems like a terrible waste to destroy a perfectly good container just to get a ~penny’s worth of materials out of it. This is one of the big problems I have with recycling. When I was a kid in school (throughout the 90’s), we learned the 3 R’s: reduce, reuse, recycle. Notice that recycle is last on the l…

> I love Pringles tubes. We reuse them all over the place around the house. Never really thought of recycling them. Seems like a terrible waste to destroy a perfectly good container just to get a ~penny’s worth of materials out of it. Recyclers are downstream from consumers. They can’t stop consumers from throwing away their pringles cans, and until Kellogg’s starts bulk-selling Pringles in bags… people will throw ca…

> meaning 6 figures Pringle cans being sold every year, if not 7

The article states "three million cans are made across Europe every day". That's 10 figures annually in Europe alone.

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Post by jdmichal »

morganvachon wrote: post #45
ja27 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a Classico pasta sauce line that uses jars molded with Atlas Mason on them and fit Mason jar lids but are not designed to be reused for canning. Just for marketing.

I've found a way to upcycle those, they make excellent drinking glasses. My home is an old farmhouse in a semi-rural area, so it fits the aesthetic perfectly. I grew up poor, with my family reusing Mason and Bell jars as drinking glasses between canning seasons, so I'm comfortable with it. With the opening narrower than the body, they also prevent ice cubes from invading our mouths when we consume iced drinks. As an…

You just brought back a memory to me of a restaurant I went to as a kid, where the drinks were served in mason jars and the straws were uncooked pasta. This must have been 25 years ago at least... Talk about ahead of their time!

Re: Pringles tube tries to wake from 'recycling nightmare'

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Post by detaro »

m0nty wrote: post #85

> Kellogg's says these lids will still produce the distinctive "pop" associated with the product. No it isn't. Is this "pop" really such a big deal that they've been holding back on the redesign for so long?

Isn't it like the Pringles marketing thing?

Re: Pringles tube tries to wake from 'recycling nightmare'

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Post by thanatos519 »

Ensorceled wrote: post #16

We need to focus on the second R, reuse. I have mason jars that my grandmother and then my mother used for pickling. The only waste is the rubber ring which needs to be replaced occasionally and THAT could be recycled. Many of these bottles have been used for 80+ years now. I have a few Ball jars which my GREAT grandmother used 100+ years ago. Beer bottles in Canada are reused dozens of times and are recyclable (brow…

They are reusable! A Pringles can makes a great directional antenna ... but I only need so many of those.
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