Re:How Coca-Cola Undermines Plastic Recycling Efforts
by NeedMoreTea on Sunday October 20, 2019 @11:47AM
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Well have to do something in the sense of use some proportion of the recycled plastic. They have been consistent in briefing against deposit and reuse, and recycling, despite using millions of tons of plastic a year.
Moving to the system presently in Norway, and Germany I believe would be a huge step in the right direction. Sadly most governments appear afraid or unable to actually put accountability on corporations. Personally I'd require them to go back to deposit and reuse.
Re:How Coca-Cola Undermines Plastic Recycling Efforts
by Symbiote on Sunday October 20, 2019 @07:47PM
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In Denmark, most bottles are as you describe, but glass returflaske are sent back to the brewery for refilling.
These are the biggest beer brands (Carlsberg etc) and the biggest soda brands (Coke etc), though the glass soda bottles are mostly seen in bars.
No they don't. Here in Norway the bottles are compacted in the back of the reverse vending machine (usually from Tomra: https://www.tomra.com/nb-no/collection/reverse-vending) and sent directly to recycling. Bottles from all the different suppliers go together, none of them go back to the manufacturer of the content. And Coca-Cola has a deposit on bottles here and it is an entirely non-controversial idea.