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Yes I completely understand the lobbying the fossil fuel industry does and the tactics they use.

This is not the only policy from the EU regarding climate change however. If it was, I’d be with you that it’s absolutely not good enough.

No one is sat thinking we’ve solved climate change by making plastic bottle lids slightly differently, and given this thread it clearly carries a negative sentiment. So it’s a pretty bad symbolic gesture.

We currently have a problem with microplastics.

I fail to see how this change will not increase the rates at which the lids are recycled.

This change was basically free, so even if it only moves the needle slightly, it was a change worth making.

There’s no silver bullet for fixing the problem, pretty much everything has to change, and this is just one of those many changes.

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agressivelyPassive@feddit.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Ask yourself these simple questions: where is micro plastic coming from? And what would be a good lever to reduce that? Bottle caps are not the answer for any of that.

So the result is barely any change in the amount of plastic introduced in the environment, the real big sources (for example the plastic wrapper around the bottles, and around the pallets of bottles) are untouched, but people (like you) become complacent, because we added those cap straps after all!

Yes, reducing even a bit is helpful, but it’s far from being free, because this exact bullshit makes people ignore the real problem. Your view is far too myopic.

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- 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  where is micro plastic coming from?
  
  Literally everywhere
  
  And what would be a good lever to reduce that?
  
  Many, many, many individual pieces of legislation
  
  Bottle caps are not the answer for any of that.
  
  If you’ve read what I’ve written, you would know I’m not saying that
  
  So the result is barely any change in the amount of plastic introduced in the environment
  
  Where it ends up is the most important thing
  
  but people (like you) become complacent, because we added those cap straps after all!
  
  Again, read. I, or anyone else reasonable in support of this, are not saying this is the silver bullet. It’s one of the thousands of points of iterative improvement we need to make.
  
  but it’s far from being free
  
  In terms of green legislation, this is literally as cheap as it gets
  
  this exact bullshit makes people ignore the real problem. Your view is far too myopic.
  
  You have clearly not comprehended my previous comments remotely correctly.
  
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