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Do you still use that bottle?

insane... i did the same with the green tea arizona glass bottle... i love the design of it enough to weirdly use it over and over

Too bad Snapple uses plastic now.

vomit 🤮

Try not to do that cause the water will be contaminated with micro plastics overtime and kill the plant

Building these facilities in every state would reduce plastic in our oceans and would create millions of jobs!

Beverage companies should pay for that not public funds.

@I'mBatman seek Jesus.

@@kraut1982 ha, good luck trying to convince them that.

So who pays the workers?

Love Germany recycle system. So many things there are common sense. Separate plastic, paper, glass and metal. Waste not want not.

The cap is made of a different material. Removing the caps makes it easier for the recycling facility.

In nz we are told to leave the cap on as hey are too small for the initial sorting machines to sort by themselves. 30% of the weight in labels, lids and leftovers in the bottle are chucked out

@@scottbc31h22 - Thanks! I typically recycle about 300 PETE water bottles every 6 to 8 weeks, and I did not know that it is preferred to recycle them without the caps. I will start bagging them for recycle with the caps off as of today.

The bottles are anyway cut into small pieces using a crusher and so are the caps so leaving them on or inside the bottle doesn’t make a difference

@@theanfielddiary4514 wrong!!! it is best to recycle a clear bottle separate from the cap and label. i cut the labels off my bottles prior to recycling, and i remove the cap and the ring around the bottle neck

The world is moving into digitalizing recycling, it feels amazing to earn through investing in recycling businesses and initiative.

@@OleksandraKhlusand how does that work please

Gm Br In Germany they have hevy duty reusable plastic bottles...

Yes that is quite sensible!

better n many ways, but heavy and expensive to transport, thus fossil fuel intensive

To some a soda tasted better from a glass than plastic bottle.

Glass bottles are still used in the Philippines

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It is probably and inefficient operation and results in even more pollution.

@Prowler Cam Which is part of the beauty: even amoral people can be induced to act morally when the economics indicate that it's preferable.

@@PrezVeto true

When you die bequeath all of your money to those who are doing these types of things for society.

What is the method used to remove labels from the bottles?

@@OO7ronaldo As of right now, recycle plants powerwash the bottles, spraying the lables off

6. States are expected BY LAW to provide recycling bins and trucks to come pick them up.

Where I live the bottles wind up on the roads

Exactly what I thought.

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Runar, we have almost 40 million population in California, and with that many people, the number of plastic bottles used just for water every day is staggering. Tens of millions, I've heard, EVERY DAY. Then add to that plastic bottles for other liquids and food products like mayonnaise, salad dressing, dishwashing liquid, laundry bleach, and the total number of plastic containers discarded by Californians every day is almost uncountable. And far too much of it is ending up in landfills. I personally recycle all of our household containers, and I get about 10¢ each for the heavy-weight PETE bottles (for carbonated beverages), and 5¢ each for the light weight ones. The last load I took to the recycle place, about 6 kitchen trash sized bags full, I got about $30. And I got to feel good about being part of the solution instead of part of the problem. The county I live in has 6 or 7 recycle places for household waste and they accept plastics, aluminum, glass, and household steel scrap, like food cans, up to 1 kg in weight per piece. Heavier steel scrap can be recycled at a facility that specializes in scrapping junked cars; they have a big hammer mill that can shred whole automobiles, and larger pieces of scrap metal, like a discarded refrigerator or laundry machine. California has a State Government Agency whose only business is promoting recycling.

​@@laura-ann.0726 : Funny how you would write this, just when I took out the garbarge and was annoyed of my neighbours that didn't sort it enough. Most of what you are telling is really great and I wish more was like you and your county. In my region of 25 000 people on several island the waste company of 4 municipalities is doing a good job. Every house has serveral rubbish bins outside: Paper, food waste, metal and glass packaging (in the same), plastic (collected in a bag) and 1 with "rest garbage" or what is left. The last is sendt to sweden to be burnt for electricity. Food waste is made to earth locally and paper/glass/metal is sendt to either south of Norway or Europe to be recycled. It is collected every 2nd, 4th og 6th week. Also: In every municipality we have facility where we can deliver more and bigger things. Like bigger metal, building material, garden waste and so on. Much is free to deliver. So it is a great system. It just annoy me when people dont use it. But you are right it is great to be a part of the solution. But one thing is recycling our waste, another is to reduce the amout of waste we create. I think that is more effectfull, but maybe also harded. Do we need a new bottle for water, printing paper and plastic around so many things, new electric equipment and so on... Thank you for writing. Good that many people focus on this.

Oregon was one of the very first states to adopt a return policy.

Use recyclable metal cans. Keeps soda cold longer too.

Big Soda doesn't care about us.

Warren Winter that make sense to me

@@NicholasLittlejohn *Big Soda*

Coke does. Not in usa. Utube it...

that's the issue. This is not happening. We're just sorting it and shipping it all to China.

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As you know that is only 1%. It’s a shame when the public put so much effort into reclining to find out that 99% isn’t.

@@ohmusicsweetmusic Not anymore. China has stopped taking plastic "recyclables" from the West because we were sending them mostly trash. Now that there's no where to ship them, many communities have stopped collecting recyclables for the present, or the plastics are going straight to landfill. We need more companies like CarbonLite to spring up across the country, and other states have to start collecting deposits on containers to encourage more recycling.

Philfbaby well which is more useful, the material or the energy?

They might have solar panels.

Better be from photovoltaics.

Better to re use and waste energy than to flood the planet with trash

I wonder about the entropy of the whole system, they seem very confident when they talk about getting rid of all the processes needed to create a new bottle by "recyling". Nobody seems to take chemistry seriously here.

In Australia there is container deposit divided by State delineations. In the State of New South Wales I am fairly sure that they have it as just as well leave the friggin' caps on the plastic bottles. Yep. They'd prefer the caps, or lids, left on, as far as I know. Certainly not essential but nevertheless actually preferred. They still won't actually tell anyone what they do with those friggin' PET and HDPE bottles, so keeping the lids on reduces small litter pieces, and maybe they just lob it all into power station furnaces or maybe the lids on both the PET and HDPE bottles are colored HDPE and there is a market for that. They won't tell you what they do with the collected deposit containers. They only give us feel good stories of charities and schools making money on the collections.

You mis understood what he said. He said they end up with 70% of the mass that comes in, since caps and labels are removed. I’m assuming not all bottles are 100% empty so during the washing they also remove the leftover liquids and the weight/mass is reduces further. Not that if the cap is left on it gets thrown out. That’s what I understood from what he said. Correct me if I’m wrong

yea and create profit :)

and save the planet :)

how many bottles can people carry? actually there are such water stations, at least here in California

they’re called water fountains and water bottles

@@brewckle haha! Yeah almost too simple. Buy a damn Nalgene bottle and fill it before you leave the house. Then just stop buying disposable plastic bottles.

you typed that on a device using plastic its impossible to avoid

Chris Loewen So because you lived in a place that had clean water, people who don’t should drink from the hose? Some people eat other humans and some humans eat only extremely old food so, does this mean we should all do it because people survive? Water isn’t just for drinking and we aren’t dogs.

@Captcha Neon No... if you live someplace that has shitty water and you get sick and die, that's okay. It's called removing weaker people from the gene pool. That way the people that survive their children will be stronger and we wont have to fuck with bottling water. If we would just let nature solve its own problem the recycling and trash problem wouldn't exist. How do you like those truth apples? Not PC, but the most efficient.

Use a metal or glass cup instead of plastic bottles 😃

@@jasonchecchi1558 or resue then

@@CaptchaNeon That bottle water is costing our oceans all the fish in them. So much micro-plastic in the ocean that fish will not be able to survive.

2021 update: I work for the biggest PET recycling company in the world with headquarters in Taiwan (FENC). We have two plants in Ohio and one in Virginia in the states. I'm not sure if the place in this video is still around but we're making a dent here in Ohio.

Lies again? RP education

What's so great about it? Sure we clean it and melt it but then what? That's where we are going wrong.

​@@sirmario1some types i heard it takes more

Good

Lmao

I agree that was a poor choice of words on his part. A better term would have been "indefinite".

But, about its quality degrading; into what does it break down? Doesn't melting it into a liquid and letting it harden set the decay process back to the beginning?

+TheNoiseySpectator Well it will stay as plastic but not usable. it looses its elastic properties. Thats why recycled plastic get mixed with virgin plastic usually.

salamaza- Its elastic property is depleted. Could it be used to make something more rigid, like serving dishes, toys, or even altered into another class of plastics? It seems like such a waste to have to discard it completely without it being at least partly reclaimed.

Recycled plastics are made into timber replacement products and also paving bricks and roof tiles.