Comment on Tethered plastic caps

• Crampon@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So. In Norway we have this great system for returning used bottles for cash. We get 0.2$ for a 0.5 liter bottle. People are returning the bottle with the cap on. Seeing bottle caps laying around isn’t a thing.

  Instead of attaching the cap to the bottle. Make a return system for the bottles. People are not systematically seperating the bottle and the cap as the cap keeps the sugary residue left inside the bottle in place instead of in the bag you carry them with to the store for returning them for that sweet cash.

  Attaching the cap is a solution looking for a problem.

  Having travelled a lot around in Europe I have never seen bottle caps laying the street alone. People throw them together or not at all.

  This is bureaucracy time spent on caps instead of actual problems. So they could focus on actual issues instead of this shit. It’s a testament to how they blame every issue on random people instead of the industries inventing new ways to fuck up any ecosystem.

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  • nis@feddit.dk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes. Deposits for recyclable bottles also fixes a problem. Seems like we are fixing problems all over the place :)

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  • EssentialCoffee@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We also have that in Michigan. You still see bottles and cans places. Historically, there have a lot of ‘reward programs’ that incentivised keeping bottle caps separate (either from the company or occasionally locally for reasons). I also distinctly remember it being advertised that bottle needed to be capless for recycling, so we always removed the caps and tossed them. Only recently have I seen verbiage on bottles requesting them to be recycled with caps on, which I usually forget to do because it’s habit to toss the caps.

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    • Crampon@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Cool. The more you know.

      Funny how there are such different practices.

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• The_wild_card@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Exactly i feel like people are becoming too weiny and easily irritated maybe because of the decline of quality in life due to capitalism ?

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