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Re:Fish are eating lots of plastic by throwaway613834 on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @04:44AM (#15173456)
Without food having touched them, I'm assuming, right?

I'm pretty sure I've heard they just can't deal with grease from food in the recycling. (Not that they don't try to address a bit of it, but that any significant amount ruins their batches or something.)

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Re:Fish are eating lots of plastic by adrianN on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @04:54AM (#15173502)
You're supposed to wash things, but they're washed again at the recycling plant because few people do it sufficiently thoroughly.
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Re:Fish are eating lots of plastic by throwaway613834 on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @05:02AM (#15173527)
Oh, I wasn't aware. Two follow-ups then:

(1) Is it actually worth the water? Especially in somewhere with a water crisis, like (say) California?

(2) Can they actually wash these though? On a large scale, how could they possibly wash plastic wrappers that can cling to themselves so as to remove all the grease?

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