• Madison420@lemmy.world
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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.

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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.

                    Let’s break it down.

                    “But as these bottles are largely single-use” - does not define ‘single-use’ but implies that the following statement is about single-use bottles

                    “many of them are discarded and dumped in the earth’s ecosystems, where they constitute a significant portion of all environmental waste.” - says that many of the aforementioned are dumped and constitute environmental waste.

                    That’s it. That’s the entirety of the quote you provided.

                    Where do you get that single-use is defined as only the unrecycled bottles from THAT?