Corporations are saving the planet!
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Cynicism, on the other hand - that's always good.
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Littered bottle caps was a problem? Anyway, I hope they do cigarette filters next.
Those float in the sea, we don't want that iiuc. Is a different plastic too, way more valuable from a recycling perspective (in Argentina hospitals used to collect caps to melt and make toys for childrens)
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Ofc it is, but stupid fucks have to complain about mundane shit
OP is a 2 day old account. If you haven't figured it out yet, there is a massive anti-progress astroturfing campaign all over the Internet, and it's little shit like this which quietly switches people into cynical brain rot. Memes are bumper sticker politics, and you should always be skeptical of them when they are pushing any narrative.
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That last sentence is pulling a whole lot of weight there, there are so many bad implementations out there it's just stupid.
Also why the hell does this extend to all bottles, what is the point of a milk carton having this mandatory. (Pure coincidence, but most milk packaging I've come across after the change falls in the 'bad implementation' category)
Why would it make sense to manufacture different types of caps when the largest market is now the attached ones?
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I'm only complaining about all the people that apparently regularly lost bottle caps. I don't think that has happened to me ever... Not the end of the world and if it reduces litter I'll deal with it but I curse these people every time one of the new caps is being annoying to screw back on.
Or when it hits your nose.
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Littered bottle caps was a problem? Anyway, I hope they do cigarette filters next.
That’s an EU regulation, not a corporate measure. And it has drastically decreased the amount of littered bottle caps, so a good thing.
you should only be allowed to buy cigarettes if you can account for all your ciggy butts or pick-up an equal amount.
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Thanks for explaining, I was worried this was a band aid mesure which didn't solve to root cause. /s
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An EU regulation that was heavily lobbied for by Coca Cola.
Can you show a link that supports that? Because I distinctly recall these companies opposing this measure.
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I end up dribbling because the lid gets in my way, but it's fine because I'm helping to offset the pollution caused by a billionaire's private jet.
"Hello fellow citizens! Did you know that rich people go everywhere with private jets? Maybe you should just choose the comfortable route, and throw away your cola bottle on the spot."
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Why would it make sense to manufacture different types of caps when the largest market is now the attached ones?
Because they're very different bottles (the cap on the milk I'm talking about combines the seal with the cap)
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Can you show a link that supports that? Because I distinctly recall these companies opposing this measure.
He can't because it's not true.
This is a EU regulation and it's a good one.
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That’s an EU regulation, not a corporate measure. And it has drastically decreased the amount of littered bottle caps, so a good thing.
you should only be allowed to buy cigarettes if you can account for all your ciggy butts or pick-up an equal amount.
Do like Japan with ammunition. You have to turn in your spent cases to buy more.
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Conspiracy theory of mine - I’m European, so not sure if valid for the other side of the pond, but there was a massive campaign here to recycle the bottle caps by donating them for the creation of incubators for premature births. The local authorities placed massive donation boxes shaped like a heart and they were getting filled constantly.
Here’s the theory: When the campaign started getting up to speed, they started attaching the bottle caps to the bottle, because, I strongly believe, that out there, there is an absolute evil cunt who only feels something when a baby dies, so he wants fewer donated caps, because deep inside he knows people don’t care enough to snap the cap off.
Can incubators not be made out of PET? why not accept and recycle the whole bottle?
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Thanks for explaining, I was worried this was a band aid mesure which didn't solve to root cause. /s
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I was interested in that whole ecoli eating plastic and producing 95% acetaminophen from it by mass. Maybe we can stop a lot of the plastic from water/soda bottles and just medicate ourselves till our livers shit themselves out our assholes.
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An EU regulation that was heavily lobbied for by Coca Cola.
it costs coca cola more to produce those attached caps than not, are you saying coca cola was pushing for saving the environment? lol
It's an EU regulation meant to battle bottle caps being a major problem for marine wild life, where bigger sea mammals and fish swallow them and suffocate from it. Why are you lobbying for mega corporations willingly and for free? Did you hit your head as child one time too many?
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That's an EU regulation, not a corporate measure. And it has drastically decreased the amount of littered bottle caps, so a good thing.
It works by applied statistics.
When you littered before - with the old cap - you'd have two pieces of plastic, now they are connected and it's only one piece.
I'm only mildy annoyed by the new lids and got used to them, but it's the bottle cap regulation is one of those that's purely better for statistics.
It reduces littering by bottles to around half, just because we count the pieces differently now.
Maybe we should better just start taxing by the amount of plastic used in food packaging, as a lot of the packages get bigger and bigger just to display the contents more visibility.
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That’s an EU regulation, not a corporate measure. And it has drastically decreased the amount of littered bottle caps, so a good thing.
you should only be allowed to buy cigarettes if you can account for all your ciggy butts or pick-up an equal amount.
In Australia they have something called "report a tosser" people who are proven to have littered anything from cigarette buds to plastic bottles and more will be fined to hell and back.
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It works by applied statistics.
When you littered before - with the old cap - you'd have two pieces of plastic, now they are connected and it's only one piece.
I'm only mildy annoyed by the new lids and got used to them, but it's the bottle cap regulation is one of those that's purely better for statistics.
It reduces littering by bottles to around half, just because we count the pieces differently now.
Maybe we should better just start taxing by the amount of plastic used in food packaging, as a lot of the packages get bigger and bigger just to display the contents more visibility.
It reduces littering by bottles to around half, just because we count the pieces differently now.
Beyond the statistics, collecting bottles seems easier than collecting bottle caps. Since people can't stop tossing their trash in the street, at least it makes it easier for people that clean up to get them.
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Littered bottle caps was a problem? Anyway, I hope they do cigarette filters next.
The caps was a problem yes. Not just littering, but also in sorting for recycling, where they'd often end up in the wrong place.
It obviously depends on where and how it's done, but the thing I've heard is that due to (the lack of) weight and size the bottle caps would end up in the paper badges, which would ruin the paper from being recycled.
It's better if it follows the bottle. PET bottles (including caps) are shredded, washed and used for new bottles.Same thing happened to the pull tabs on aluminium cans. Those used to be separate too.
