Re:Mushrooms Can Eat Plastic, Petroleum and CO2 (2018)
by chongli on Thursday December 03, 2020 @06:54AM
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Soft drinks can go back to glass bottles and returns with deposits. This works extremely well with beer, wine, and liquor bottles.
A lot of these laminates can be replaced, but some are rather harder to. Progressive taxation based on recyclability is an easy win which incentivizes correct packaging (and transport packaging as well) and would be an easier sell. Additional, homogeneous packaging would be taxed less.
The branding that goes on the packaging is still open to design, so there's room for differentiation there - a necessary component for adoption.
Lastly, standardizing recyclability across the state/county/country would be useful as then tourists etc. can also understand a simple recycling message.