Re:Tips from Poland on Old-School Zero Waste (2019)
by kolinko on Monday February 03, 2020 @05:49AM
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I can totally imagine Europe passing a law for this.
Wouldn't be surprised if it was also beneficial for the soda companies - standardised bottles would be cheaper to produce/acquire, bottling equipment as well.
Re:Tips from Poland on Old-School Zero Waste (2019)
by LargoLasskhyfv on Sunday February 02, 2020 @11:22PM
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THIS!
If a country were to standardize, say, drink bottles, detergent bottles, etc, then this is already a solved problem. Just have a machine clean the bottles to wash away dirt and remove labels, then run it through some image processing software to auto detect any residue. Anything within a certain threshold could either be accepted as clean or needing an extra wash, and anything over a certain % of dirtiness or having undergone N number of washes without getting clean is sent off to be melted down and recycled.
Once it's standardized, the software is made, done, and ready to deploy everywhere without any changes (until the government approves new bottle designs). Facilities would be cheap to build. The only problem is every drink manufacturer in the world would oppose it since they can't make goofily shaped bottles with cartoonish logos everywhere.