Americans' plastic recycling is dumped in landfills

Re:Americans' plastic recycling is dumped in landfills by jokoon on Monday July 29, 2019 @07:44AM (#20553476)

Yesterday I posted on /r/crazyideas about doing a startup that would design reusable, standard packaging of difference shapes for all possible food forms. It could be made of high quality plastic, glass, maybe stainless steel, etc as long as it can be easily recycled and that brands can put paper stickers on them. Those can be returned/sold back.

Someone answered me that most plastics can be recycled because he worked in a recycling plant, meaning this was a bad idea. I linked him a forbes article after a few comments and he stopped answering. It's hard to know if that guy was just astroturfing me.

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Re:Americans' plastic recycling is dumped in landfills by _4570 on Monday July 29, 2019 @10:10AM (#20554741)

First paragraph - It's a good idea on paper and someone is already trying it. Not just for food by the way. Check out https://loopstore.com/

Second paragraph seems a little conspiracy theorist-y to be honest!

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Re:Americans' plastic recycling is dumped in landfills by blaser-waffle on Monday July 29, 2019 @12:56PM (#20556716)

> Second paragraph seems a little conspiracy theorist-y to be honest!

I agree, though it's always worth remembering 1) that AI and automated marketing and responses will only get better as time goes on, and 2) there are a lot of unemployed people who can, could, and will shill for things on the internet. If there is a profit motive 1 & 2 will likely happen.

The problem is separating idiots from deliberate misinformation.

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