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Survey finds that 60 firms are responsible for half of world’s plastic pollution
(www.theguardian.com)
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Think the unthinkable- what if we not only still sold most of our beverages in recyclable glass bottles, what if we also offered money to recycle them?
When i was young we had glass bottles for everything.
Thank god for PET bottles.
PET is just as easily recyclable as glass and it doesnt break when the bottle falls or explode during temperature swings. Next to that its weighs not even 10% of a glass bottle thus saving a lot of transportation costs. Creating a PET bottle costs a fraction of a glass bottle. Nobody ever died because of a cut vein by a PET bottle. Glass on the other hand...
PET is way better for the environment then glass ever will be.
I lived in the 70s/80s as a kid and there are very good reasons why we stopped with glass. Glass bottles for pop sucked ass, big times.
And the recycle money scheme also works on PET bottles. I know that also for a fact. Why? I live in the EU. We're doing that for like... Forever.
In the end its not the companies who just jug it onto the roadside or dont recycle shit. It's us. We're the assholes. We find it too hard to put something in the right bin. We find it too hard having 4 bins at home for recycling. We find it too hard to just keep our waste with us in the car. Its nasty. Just open the window and throw it out.
Putting everything in glass will solve nothing. Then, instead of forever plastic we're left with forever glass. People are lazy assholes. Accept it and start work on that, not the symptoms.
And maybe... Maybe Carlin was right about plastic. (if you dont know what im talking about, which I cannot believe, search "carlin earth plastic" on YouTube. And choose the longest one for the entire sketch)
This will hopefully be the dumbest thing I read today. But I assume this is a troll or a PR person.