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  • cosmicrookie@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I love so many things that EU has done especially with GDPR But then they come up with this crap and you wonder what they were thinking

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      They were thinking that those caps were among the top items found littering beaches. So they put forward this measure to attempt to curb that issue.

      Nobody should be buying single use bottles anyway if there are alternatives available. Maybe that’s the quiet part - making them less attractive to consumers

      Drinking from a can only works from one side, so I guess think of it that way.

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        Nobody should be buying single use bottles anyway if there are alternatives available. Maybe that’s the quiet part - making them less attractive to consumers

        Wow. I got played. I did finally switch to just drinking tap water and the number of single use plastic bottles I go through each weak is down by 90% or smth. Just like 2-3 bottles of coke left. I buy some local off-brand stuff cause screw big corporations.

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        But are they though? Personally i see many bottles littered and even more lids from cups. Actually why are straws replaced with paper but the lids are still plastic? And why not ban plastic bottles alltogether like they’ve done with so many other things?

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          I don’t know, it’s what they said. Maybe bottles are easier to clean up. They said “among” the most frequent items, so perhaps you’re right that those other things are worse, but there haven’t been reasonable alternatives suggested

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            it’s a change expected to prevent 10% of the litter in european beaches, to be fair, the true fix could be ban plastic lol

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          Plastics legislation is often incredibly patchwork and politicised-feeling. It’s a good idea, but I kind of think Extended Producer Responsibility would have gotten the job done better.

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        Nobody should be buying single use bottles anyway if there are alternatives available.

        Are there alternatives available for carbonated beverages? I guess we could go back to glass bottles. But, they’re effectively single-use too.

        We’ve come a long way, so that it’s normal to take a thermos to a coffee shop and have them put a tea or a coffee in it. I don’t know of any similar scheme for carbonated beverages. I’d love it if it existed, especially if you could keep your soda-pop cold for hours.

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          Glass bottles are not always single use. Countries have systems to recollect them (empty bottles hold a face value), they get factory-cleaned and quality tested and each bottle can run for 20 or more cycles. The issue is more that it increases the transportation and handling costs and emissions because of weight. Bottles that don’t pass the test anymore but did stay in the system can get near 100% recycled, tho the issues there are that it’s usually downgrade (make dark bright again = hard) and very energy intensive (costs more energy to recycle than to make glass from scratch). Anyhow: not single use.

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      Do you actually wonder?

      Those caps get lost way less and since the bottles themselves usually get recycled now the caps also stay in the cycle.

      And it took me like 5 bottles to get used to it.
      Even a slow learner should get it sooner or later.

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      8 months ago

      You are right. How do they still allow plastic bottles ? That’s a huge waste of ressources.

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        8 months ago

        It actually is part of my point… i dont understand why they need to over complicate things

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        I’m sure it will come. The first time I drank from one of these I was confused and thought my cap had a manufacturing defect so pulled it off. It was only afterwards that I saw on the packaging what it was.