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Re:On Second Thought, Just Throw Plastic Away by ftyers on Saturday November 05, 2022 @10:41AM (#33481918)
The article is kind of hysterical, but has some interesting information in. I always wondered what to do with plastic bags and bottles and stuff in places where there is no rubbish collection. Burning seems popular, but despite looking up DIY home incineration it seems like not much effort is being put into this.

I also wondered why there aren't deposits on plastic bottles like there are on glass bottles. In the end it should probably be up to the companies who produce them, like Coca Cola to deal with them, but there probably needs to be an incentive to return them.

Re:On Second Thought, Just Throw Plastic Away by moconnor on Saturday November 05, 2022 @10:44AM (#33481952)
Here in Germany there are deposits on plastic bottles for things like coke. The bottles are more sturdy and get re-used multiple times.
Re:On Second Thought, Just Throw Plastic Away by ftyers on Saturday November 05, 2022 @10:50AM (#33482005)
That's cool, is it mandated by law or did it just work out as more economical?
Re:On Second Thought, Just Throw Plastic Away by oblio on Saturday November 05, 2022 @10:59AM (#33482087)
Knowing the Germans, it's a law.
Re:On Second Thought, Just Throw Plastic Away by coding123 on Saturday November 05, 2022 @10:55AM (#33482053)
What happens if someone poops in the bottle and then recycles it. I guess that's just the American in me probably. Probably why those efforts die here.
Re:On Second Thought, Just Throw Plastic Away by ftyers on Saturday November 05, 2022 @11:03AM (#33482142)
I guess you'd smell it? And if not does it really matter?

Probably you'd be surprised at how much you poop you consume, both your own and other people's or animal's.

Re:On Second Thought, Just Throw Plastic Away by joseda-hg on Saturday November 05, 2022 @11:17AM (#33482278)
Everything should be sterilized by the bottler before reusing, but I'm guessing that any bottle to suffer that destiny would be discarded either by the store owner, the pick up crew, or the bottling facility

It's pretty similar in my country

Re:On Second Thought, Just Throw Plastic Away by ThrowawayTestr on Saturday November 05, 2022 @11:12AM (#33482224)
I imagine the bottles are cleaned before refilling.
Re:On Second Thought, Just Throw Plastic Away by romski on Saturday November 05, 2022 @12:11PM (#33482816)
Plastic and glass is ground up
Re:On Second Thought, Just Throw Plastic Away by oblio on Saturday November 05, 2022 @01:37PM (#33483651)
Does it matter? You need to sterilize it anyway, because of the other million environmental factors.
Re:On Second Thought, Just Throw Plastic Away by rtanks on Saturday November 05, 2022 @10:47AM (#33481976)
I agree