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by DoingIsLearning 1280 days ago
The problem still stands. Coca-Cola, Nestlé, Unilever, P&G, Tetrapak, etc. are overwhelmingly producing new plastic from petroleum.

Recycled plastic also gets brittle as you recycle it. Nothing in this Plastic story is anywhere near as 'circular' as it is with glass or metal recycling.
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albert180 1279 days ago
Especially the PET -Plastic from Bottles get's recycled in Germany because thanks to the deposit system you get it really really clean. And even the Discounters like Lidl sell Water and Softdrinks in PET-Bottles which are made of 100% recycled PET. If they don't do it over there, change the laws and force them
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DoingIsLearning 1279 days ago
Even in Germany most Coca-Cola PET bottles will be from new plastic, or at best _partially_ from recycled pellets but not 100% recycled.

A bottle from 100% recycled PET pettles has a deep dark grey colour because they cannot perfectly control plastic colouring in recycling. So those pristine transparent bottles are 100% guaranteed not from recycled pettles.

It really is a con through and through. We need to ban single-use plastic, everything else is noise.

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ZeroGravitas 1279 days ago
Coca cola has been selling products in 100% recycled PET in Germany for about a year.

The major blocker at the moment is the lack of recycled PET to use.

So all the people undermining the work by telling folk not to bother recycling their bottles isn't really helpful, unless you are trying to support the fossil fuel industry.

https://www.packaging-360.com/en/current-topics/coca-cola-in...

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DoingIsLearning 1279 days ago
> So all the people undermining the work by telling folk not to bother recycling their bottles isn't really helpful, unless you are trying to support the fossil fuel industry.

There is no 'work', plastic is cheap for the packager, expensive for our environment. The industry has setup a marketing compaign to divert attention away from all the externalized environmental costs of plastic.[0]

You are right that I want to undermine this effort because what I want is a full ban on single use-plastic outside medical/laboratory applications.

I highly recommend this PBS docu on the PR aspects around Plastic:

[0] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/plastic-wars/

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LargoLasskhyfv 1279 days ago
There is green and brown PET, for juices and beer.
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