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Are those dumpsters recyclable? I am picturing a big robot throwing those dumpsters into a giant shredder or something. I'll let myself out.
I 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
Some 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 se…
I don't understand how that's even allowed.
This 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 California legislature has appeared to take the non-recycling of most plastics into account:
A majority of the state’s assembly members voted
to ban companies from using the arrows symbol
unless they can prove the material is in fact
recycled in most California communities,
and is used to make new products.This 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…
For instance, when I learned about plastic bottle recycling, I switched to canned water.
Some 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 se…
This 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…
It will decrease the number of plastic goods people buy under ecological pretexts. For instance, when I learned about plastic bottle recycling, I switched to canned water.
I 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
Uhhh... where do you think trademark rights come from, if not legislation?
I hope they’re not confusing the resin symbols with the recycling symbol.
The US Society of the Plastics Industry designed their resin identification code in 1988 and made it similar to the recycling symbol which had been in use since 1970, even though many of the plastics thus labeled were not generally recyclable.
According to wikipedia[1] they eventually changed the RIC "chasing arrows" to a solid triangle in 2013 to address consumer confusion, but I still see a lot of plastics sporting the chasing arrow symbol.
I hope efforts like California's succeed so that the recycling symbol can be reserved for products that can be recycled in practice. (i.e. there are more than a token number of municipal facilities that process that type of plastic into a reusable form)