Okay. So they do this in Japan. The plastic used in the wrapper is different than the plastic in the bottle. They require different processes to recycle. It’s also far more efficient for regular people to just rip it off and throw one in one bin and the other in another bin in their own homes than it is for a sorting facility to go through mountains of this stuff trying to get it right every single time. Frankly I wish more places did it this way.
I hope this explanation will make things even less infuriating.
Most European countries I’ve visited have at least 3 bins/bags : paper, plastic, everything else. Most cities also separate glass and aluminium. Some townhalls offer bags/containers for bio trash, that’s turned into compost.
Where I live (EU) most single family homes have two bins, one for burnable normal trash and one for food and biological waste.
Recycling especially cardboard and paper, but also plastics is very common but those will have to be brought to either a very local drop off point or a local recycling/waste disposal site.
The drop off points usually have small containers for paper, plastics, metal, glass and small boxes for non rechargable batteries.
The recycling facility accepted pretty much everything that one could ever want to throw away.
Many cities just burn a lot of it. Technically “recycled” according to the definition and generates some energy, but plastic is just not great no matter how you look at it.
Truth is, it doesn’t matter anyway, because over 90% of plastic isn’t being recycled.
This whole thing (the removable label to supposedly make the bottle more recyclable) is an exercise in futility and virtue signalling to the “green” demographic for profit, aka greenwashing.
Edit to be clear: the answer is to abolish capitalism, which is why all of this is happening in the first place.
Or hear me out, we don’t need to put yet another layer of a different type of plastic wrapping an already perfectly sufficient vessel. The infuriating part to me is how this is manufactured, and it’s such a waste all for the sake of marketing.
That would certainly be one way of doing it, or at the very least not have it be an entire wrap!
But almond products are so extremely bad for the environment to begin with that I wouldn’t think any company that is morally bankrupt enough to sell almonds would care about such things.
Okay. So they do this in Japan. The plastic used in the wrapper is different than the plastic in the bottle. They require different processes to recycle. It’s also far more efficient for regular people to just rip it off and throw one in one bin and the other in another bin in their own homes than it is for a sorting facility to go through mountains of this stuff trying to get it right every single time. Frankly I wish more places did it this way.
I hope this explanation will make things even less infuriating.
Recycling in Japan is a very involved process. You end up with like, 4 different bags of recyclable types, depending. I appreciate it.
Most European countries I’ve visited have at least 3 bins/bags : paper, plastic, everything else. Most cities also separate glass and aluminium. Some townhalls offer bags/containers for bio trash, that’s turned into compost.
Where I live (EU) most single family homes have two bins, one for burnable normal trash and one for food and biological waste.
Recycling especially cardboard and paper, but also plastics is very common but those will have to be brought to either a very local drop off point or a local recycling/waste disposal site.
The drop off points usually have small containers for paper, plastics, metal, glass and small boxes for non rechargable batteries.
The recycling facility accepted pretty much everything that one could ever want to throw away.
Minnesota is like that, too. At least near St. Paul/Minneapolis
Many cities just burn a lot of it. Technically “recycled” according to the definition and generates some energy, but plastic is just not great no matter how you look at it.
Source for some cities burning non-pet plastics in Japan: https://youtu.be/sAu3LVktMwE?si=30PgjrPFFiFFF7Tt&t=55s
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Truth is, it doesn’t matter anyway, because over 90% of plastic isn’t being recycled.
This whole thing (the removable label to supposedly make the bottle more recyclable) is an exercise in futility and virtue signalling to the “green” demographic for profit, aka greenwashing.
Edit to be clear: the answer is to abolish capitalism, which is why all of this is happening in the first place.
Or hear me out, we don’t need to put yet another layer of a different type of plastic wrapping an already perfectly sufficient vessel. The infuriating part to me is how this is manufactured, and it’s such a waste all for the sake of marketing.
So your solution would be to print directly on the bottle or something?
That would certainly be one way of doing it, or at the very least not have it be an entire wrap!
But almond products are so extremely bad for the environment to begin with that I wouldn’t think any company that is morally bankrupt enough to sell almonds would care about such things.