California aims to ban recycling symbols on things that aren’t recyclable
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Re: California aims to ban recycling symbols on things that aren’t recyclable
#2I hope they’re not confusing the resin symbols with the recycling symbol.
Re: California aims to ban recycling symbols on things that aren’t recyclable
#3I doubt you can create legislation to ban a symbol from a product if you don’t hold the trademark rights.
However they can create a new symbol and legislate what products are eligible for that symbol.
Edit: I stand corrected. There are other paths for this legislation
Re: California aims to ban recycling symbols on things that aren’t recyclable
#4Are those dumpsters recyclable? I am picturing a big robot throwing those dumpsters into a giant shredder or something. I'll let myself out.
Re: California aims to ban recycling symbols on things that aren’t recyclable
#5I hope they’re not confusing the resin symbols with the recycling symbol.
That's exactly what's happening. They're banning the use of the resin symbol unless it's also recyclable (by California standards), to reduce consumer confusion.
Re: California aims to ban recycling symbols on things that aren’t recyclable
#6This is a case where the proposal is actually worse than the headline, I think.
From a non-paywall source: https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/08/california-recycling...
> Despite the best intentions of Californians who diligently try to recycle yogurt cups, berry containers and other packaging, it turns out that at least 85% of single-use plastics in the state do not actually get recycled. Instead, they wind up in the landfill.
The plastic resin is recyclable, but is not commonly recycled and this act seeks to remove the marks that serve to indicate the former because of the latter. I can’t see how that will increase recycling in CA, nor be likely to leave CA citizens nor environment better off.
Re: California aims to ban recycling symbols on things that aren’t recyclable
#7Some JS stops me reading the article after the first paragraph or so. But it seems to about using that specific "three arrows" symbol.
One annoying thing I've noticed in the UK is some products having a symbol that looks a lot like the recycling symbol but upon closer inspection is not the same symbol. It turns it can be processed in a specific plant of which only one exists in the entire country. I doubt many get sent.
As many HNers are aware, plastic can't really be recycled at all. It can be reprocessed, but never recycled. That plastic tray your food comes in will never become another plastic tray that food comes in. So the recycling symbol doesn't seem to mean much apart from being a way to help people sort their waste.
Re: California aims to ban recycling symbols on things that aren’t recyclable
#8I hope they’re not confusing the resin symbols with the recycling symbol.
Re: California aims to ban recycling symbols on things that aren’t recyclable
#9I hope they’re not confusing the resin symbols with the recycling symbol.
The resin symbols were purposely made misleading to let consumers think that plastic was recyclable even when it wasn't. I don't think banning them would be that bad.
Re: California aims to ban recycling symbols on things that aren’t recyclable
#10I doubt you can create legislation to ban a symbol from a product if you don’t hold the trademark rights. However they can create a new symbol and legislate what products are eligible for that symbol. Edit: I stand corrected. There are other paths for this legislation
You can create legislation to do what ever you want, it's up to the courts to decide if it is valid or not.