That 3D scan WebGL viewer is sooooo good.
It's Three.JS r152. It doesn't look like it even has an acceleration structure. That's just raw rendering of 3D textures.
Heinz’s sustainable ketchup cap
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#62Is recycling really worthwhile and is burning such waste and using it to generate energy not more efficient?
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The recycling reduces the amount of oil that goes into new plastic, which eventually will be incinerated and contribute to the climate crisis.
the demand for non-virgin plastic is practically zero, while the cost is higher there are no economic incentives to use recycled plastic, and regulation mandating its use is minimal to non-existing. so most plastic that could be recycled isn't, and not because it isn't available/collected/sorted.
It seems though like many of the throwaway plastic containers I can find here like shampoo, water bottles, containers for sauces - NOT the Heinz ketchup bottle in my fridge though (which does say the body is recyclable but the cap is not) mention some percent of recycled plastic contents, from 90% to 20% in the items around me.
So maybe it's more expensive but there seems to be some kind of incentive for these companies, even if it's just marketing.
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How does Germany recycle 60% of its plastic waste? There is obviously hope, just not enough incentive because it costs.
Step one: virtually eliminate uneccesary plastic so there's far less waste and ideally most is of the type that can be recycled. I've not been in Germany for a long while, but I was impressed when last there by a near complete absence of excess packaging, nails in big boxes sold by weight rather than pre sorted into tiny plastic packets, etc. No idea if they kept that up. Addendum: Apparently so, and they have 5 type…
German waste processing is however known for simply dumping things in Eastern Europe. In terms of actual processing I think only the Netherlands breaches 50%. I don't like the 9 trash streams though.
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I go through a 64 gallon trash bin a week. By my back of the envelope calculation thats about 1.3 chevy tahoes worth of trash a year, and that's just me one American out of 400 million so all told we are dealing with maybe half a billion chevy tahoes of trash a year we need to do something with or put someplace if most Americans consume like I do.
> I go through a 64 gallon trash bin a week. That seems absurdly large to me. 64 gallons is 250 litres. We're four and we use about one 30 litres (8 gallons) bag for "rest" trash per week (everything not recyclable, including diapers which take a lot of space, so hopefully soon we can at least halve that trash volume) one 30 litres bag for recyclable plastic/metal every two weeks and maybe one 30 litres bag for compo…
Also family of four: we fill a 120l garbage bin per week, to the brim, and a 120l compost bin every two weeks (this one maybe is not full, but it stinks by that time) and a ton of "recyclables" (cardboard, paper, metals, plastics).
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#66Meh. Still plastic, it just piggybacks on the semi big lie of "recycling plastics works!"
I guess they are trying. But still more of a "shuffling deck chairs as the Titanic sinks" than actually addressing a problem
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
The recycling reduces the amount of oil that goes into new plastic, which eventually will be incinerated and contribute to the climate crisis.
the demand for non-virgin plastic is practically zero, while the cost is higher there are no economic incentives to use recycled plastic, and regulation mandating its use is minimal to non-existing. so most plastic that could be recycled isn't, and not because it isn't available/collected/sorted.
Yes, processes that are bad for the environment is cheaper. I find that a failing of the capitalist system, not the recycling process. If externalities were properly priced, we wouldn’t be in this mess.
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There are still companies doing this, check out Milk and More
I just had a look at this (I'd been meaning to for a while, I miss the milkman leaving milk and other bits from my childhood). The milk is literally 4x the price I would pay in the supermarket. It's a lovely idea, but in this economic climate, most people are more price-conscious than that...
There's often a few middle men with better websites but if you have a more direct option see if you can. The milk we get has a big creamy layer on the top, and tbh it's quite handy just getting a regular delivery of something we have commonly. We often add in some eggs.
It's more than the supermarket prices but those are insanely low for the product. I understand many feel the pinch more but if you can, skipping the supermarket can mean more to the actual producers.
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In the 80s in the UK we had milk delivered every morning in glass bottles by a huge fleet of electric vehicles. The empty bottles were left out, collected by the milkman, sterilised and reused. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_float
There are still companies doing this, check out Milk and More
I looked into this a while ago, but as I live in a block of flats with multiple locked entry doors needing the intercom etc it’s sadly not an option.
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> I go through a 64 gallon trash bin a week. That seems absurdly large to me. 64 gallons is 250 litres. We're four and we use about one 30 litres (8 gallons) bag for "rest" trash per week (everything not recyclable, including diapers which take a lot of space, so hopefully soon we can at least halve that trash volume) one 30 litres bag for recyclable plastic/metal every two weeks and maybe one 30 litres bag for compo…
Check your municipal waste centre. Mine, in Limburg (NL), recycles diapers.
Interesting, I wonder how they process them and what they become after recycling. Here in Antwerp diapers are explicitly supposed to be put in the rest[0] though.