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Plastic bottles are pretty much all included according to this site. There's no reason not to include them too.
It takes more energy to ship and reprocess them than you save. That's why you don't. If you do, it's explicitly because it makes you feel good - it's worse for the planet.
Someone has run the numbers and figure out energy cost and total tonnage and figure out what makes sense to streamline. Plastics is a term which applies to thousands of different polymers. Some it makes sense to recycle, some don’t. We can then begin to whittle down on the plastics we allow on the items which make most sense. For example we don’t needs tends of different plastics just because one vendor prefers the a…
https://www.greenlivingtips.com/articles/recycling-by-the-nu...
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Since lids and labels and such seem to actually matter, the only sensible solution is for the governments of the world to legislate to mandate specific shapes and material compositions for things like drink containers. Standardize it all.
I've been thinking about this more and more, and it just makes so much sense. No one cares what shape a beer bottle is, the label is enough to tell them apart. Marketing people will complain if they can't differentiate on packaging, but less of them isn't something to worry about either
This is LUDICROUS. Recycling is harder than doing your taxes. We desperately need uniformity on this. " BEVERAGE BOTTLES Recyclable. Be sure to remove the plastic film label, which isn’t recyclable. " FFS. Have you ever tried to remove one of those labels? It's impossible. " A bottle with a cap or an opening the same size or smaller than the base of the bottle is probably going to be recyclable. " -- WTF does the siz…
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The sorting absolutely should be done downstream, ideally with robots doing the vast majority of the work.
It is done that way. Thats how you can put a aluminum can and cardboard in the same bin. But what does a robot do when a tictac container comes in with a Polyethylene body and a Polypropylene lid. Does it sit there with high precision fingers trying to pick the glued in lid off?
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This is what the big kerfuffle is all about. All we’ve been doing is paying the Chinese and Malaysians to feed our plastics to the dolphins for us. Now they won’t take it, and people here get upset if you feed the animals, we’re realise the whole deception for what it is. Edit to add sources: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/03/whale... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/29/malaysia-to-se..…
I live in New Haven and saw on our handy recycling flyer [0] that pizza boxes are listed, with no caveat, as being a single stream curbside recyclable item. Which is great, because pizza is a whole thing in this town. We eat a lot of it. So I was surprised to learn, if you go poking around and find the RecycleCT website [1] and hover your mouse over the pizza box, up pops this note. "No food residue. No liner." Never…