Comment on Tethered plastic caps
FluffyPotato@lemm.ee 9 months ago
It does shit for the environment, no one throws caps away separately while recycling the bottle. Most coloured plastics aren’t recycled anyways. Like 80% of all microplastic is from car tires.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 9 months ago
It was a very common plastic to be found on beaches. So they wanted to tether it to prevent garbage shit in the ocean.
DillyDaily@lemmy.world 9 months ago
But isn’t the tether still too thin and fragile to remain connected forever?
If you drop a tethered cap on the beach, a few weeks in the sun, getting polished by sand, and that cap is seperating from the ring, and how does that fix the problem?
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 9 months ago
I think it only needs to be connected until the bottle is collected, which I’d imagine it being plastic and the tether being surprisingly sturdy it will do alright
DillyDaily@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That makes sense, we don’t have a proper bottle collection service in my area, everything goes in the mixed recycling bin, bagged up, it sits in a recycling landfill for a few months then if no one takes up the processing contract it gets scoop-diggered into the general landfill. (and the processing contracts rarely get picked up, we used to ship everything to China) During this process bags are ripped open and plastic debris gets everywhere, and heavy rains will wash it into the environment.