The widespread adoption of returning and reusing plastic packaging could help to cut greenhouse gas emissions by up to 69%, a study by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation showed on Wednesday.
We have that cashback system in Germany, each bottle has between 7 to 25 cent surcharge and it works extremely well. And those bottles are basically pure PET, which is extremely recyclable.
And reusable is nearly always better than recyclable
Sure it does work well because I am losing money in case I don’t bring it back. I really hope it just stays with the bottles and not implemented for other packaging.
When scientists examined pellets from recycled plastic collected in 13 countries they found hundreds of toxic chemicals, including pesticides and pharmaceuticals. The results are published in a study led by scientists at the University of Gothenburg.
We have that cashback system in Germany, each bottle has between 7 to 25 cent surcharge and it works extremely well. And those bottles are basically pure PET, which is extremely recyclable.
And reusable is nearly always better than recyclable
Sure it does work well because I am losing money in case I don’t bring it back. I really hope it just stays with the bottles and not implemented for other packaging.
Except this …
https://phys.org/news/2023-11-scientists-hundreds-toxic-chemicals-recycled.html