Cups tossed in recycling bins at Starbucks tracked to incinerators and landfill
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Re: Cups tossed in recycling bins at Starbucks tracked to incinerators and landfill
#2Plastic recycling is a well-known scam.
Re: Cups tossed in recycling bins at Starbucks tracked to incinerators and landfill
#3Well Starbucks, you designed them to be recycled and you certainly have the volume and the existing logistics network, how about you collect and recycle them yourselves?
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Re: Cups tossed in recycling bins at Starbucks tracked to incinerators and landfill
#5no shit. recycling doesnt work
Re: Cups tossed in recycling bins at Starbucks tracked to incinerators and landfill
#6Recycling for most materials is effectively rate limited. Storing donations that exceed capacity would require constantly expanding storage space, so the only option left is to dispose of it.
It's far more effective to reduce and reuse than recycle.
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#7Plastic is not recyclable and never has been. The myth that it is was created by the plastic companies to shift blame from the producers to the consumers.
The best thing for plastic is impossible, that’s for it never to have been. The second best is the landfill. If by some miracle it does get sorted and processed it gets shipped overseas where most of it ends up in the ocean anyway.
Re: Cups tossed in recycling bins at Starbucks tracked to incinerators and landfill
#8no shit. recycling doesnt work
Recycling of glass works.
Steel is basically 100% recyclable.
Aluminum recycles.
Plastic is not recyclable and never has been.
Re: Cups tossed in recycling bins at Starbucks tracked to incinerators and landfill
#9Well Starbucks, you designed them to be recycled and you certainly have the volume and the existing logistics network, how about you collect and recycle them yourselves?
Plastic is not recyclable
Re: Cups tossed in recycling bins at Starbucks tracked to incinerators and landfill
#10I hardly ever drink coffee, but don't people generally prefer a ceramic mug?
This seems like a cost-cutting measure from Starbucks to save collecting and washing cups and mugs.