• Madison420@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    It’s mostly just the us that no longer have recycling for bottles. Most modern countries have automated collection machines.

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        22 days ago

        I know, what I’m saying is no glass bottle is explicitly non recyclable there’s just a lack of ability to recycle in the us for whatever dumb business monster reasoning.

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          22 days ago

          Single-use bottles includes recyclable bottles. The point of single-use is that they’re discarded in some way by the consumer at the end of use, including discarded via recycling, not retained.

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              22 days ago

              They’re only single use if they aren’t recycled, the article states that as well.

              … would you care to quote that, because I’m pretty sure it says otherwise.

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                22 days ago

                But as these bottles are largely single-use, many of them are discarded and dumped in the earth’s ecosystems, where they constitute a significant portion of all environmental waste.

                They only counted recyclable bottles as single use if discarded anywhere but a recycling center assuming they may or may not be recycled so they assume it’s trash until it’s recycled or degraded.

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                  22 days ago

                  They only counted recyclable bottles as single use if discarded anywhere but a recycling center

                  That’s literally not what the quote says.