Comment on Corporations are saving the planet!

theUwUhugger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• crt0o@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I know it’s supposed to help with recycling, the issue is that it fails to address the core of the problem. Instead of actually doing something about plastic waste, they change the bottle design a little, someone probably makes a shitload of money off that, and everyone is happy, but in reality nothing of substance has actually been done. They offer us these pathetic compromises and we are stupid enough to be satisfied with them.

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  • theUwUhugger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    No it does very much so solve the problem it was meant to solve: to stop caps from becoming litter!

    You must have a very funny life if you find things funny you don’t understand

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    • crt0o@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      What do you think happens to bottles after you throw them in the trash? They get shipped off to some landfill where they’re buried and forgotten about, that’s just littering with extra steps.

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      • theUwUhugger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I am starting to think that you are very young, Lemmy is not supposed to be used by underage ppl! Yes yes yes, no one can stop you realistically but please consider why such a rule would be made! Not because Lemmy’s servers just cannot handle all the users…

        Litter means rubbish in publics non-designated areas! If you want to use a word not for its conventional meaning, and if you wanted others to understand you for whatever reason, you start off with a definition

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      • iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        In the Netherlands plastic waste is mostly burned, I believe.

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      • basxto@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        shipped off to some landfill

        No. I know this is shitpost, but that’s a stupid take.

        In countries like Germany the amount of waste grows, but amount of landfills is actually in decline. Landfills mostly contain building waste and household garbage is required to get treated before getting landfilled.

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  • entwine413@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s supposed to help with littering, not recycling. And I’ve never once seen a water bottle company advertise an attached lid as some sort of ground breaking benefit for the environment.

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      i definitely saw ads from e.g. coca cola for a while, but they were more like sponsored PSAs saying “hey, lids are going to be attached from now on! just flip it to the side and it’ll stay there. neat, huh?”

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  • Korne127@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s not about companies doing something, it’s just a new law

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