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Re:The Era of Easy Recycling May Be Coming to an End by Spooky23 on Saturday January 12, 2019 @05:27PM (#18893651)
Nobody is going to do that without a deposit, and that is hard to push through.

IMO use tax policy to drive it. Put a $5 tax on plastic clamshells and they’ll be gone in six months.

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Re:The Era of Easy Recycling May Be Coming to an End by TaylorAlexander on Saturday January 12, 2019 @05:54PM (#18893793)
And replaced with “reusable” clamshells that somehow don’t count as plastic and they’ll be five times as thick and use way more resources to produce. :-/
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Re:The Era of Easy Recycling May Be Coming to an End by r00fus on Saturday January 12, 2019 @08:27PM (#18894422)
Props to amazon for their frustration-free (and shipping cost friendly) packaging effort.

I have seen a marked reduction/elimination of clamshells the past decade of buying from them.

I'd love to complain to retailers nearby: "see this, I'm returning it and buying it from Amazon right now because of your consumer-unfriendly packaging"

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Re:The Era of Easy Recycling May Be Coming to an End by Spooky23 on Saturday January 12, 2019 @06:05PM (#18893834)
Or cardboard boxes.
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Re:The Era of Easy Recycling May Be Coming to an End by snowflakeLTD on Saturday January 12, 2019 @06:01PM (#18893817)
And there is the liability with "clamshells"

https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2017/03/04/clamshell-pa...

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