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Aluminium drawback? Why US still uses so many plastic bottles? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Thoughts? I am currently trying to avoid using plastic packed drinks as much as possible due to it's limited and finite recycle count

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

We don't recycle enough

Maybe if recycling wasn’t a massive joke it might be useful and people might embrace it.

The reality is no matter how much effort you put into recycling it’s going to a landfill or incinerator.

“Recycling” outside of glass bottles is essentially non existent.

The answer is to stop producing plastic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I was under the impression that only plastic Recycling was a sham and Recycling glass, cans and cardboard was good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Ya but it isn’t the cans, glass bottles, and cardboard that’s causing permanent environmental damage. It’s plastic that we are manufacturing daily all for it to wind up in a landfill and the side of the road which finds its way into rivers, lakes , oceans and pretty much everywhere else.

The lack of recycling glass isn’t what’s killing us. It’s plastic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

The majority of the aluminum in circulation in the US is recycled. It’s significantly more than even glass and paper. The reason is because it’s much cheaper to use recycled aluminum than raw.

But you’re right when it comes to plastic.