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  • Obelix@feddit.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRulecycling
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    29 days ago

    It’s a deposit system that works as a deposit system. And it’s purpose is to decrease the amount of bottles that get thrown into the streets and that does totally work. Just compare how many bottles are lying around in Germany to other countries.


  • Obelix@feddit.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRulecycling
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    29 days ago

    I really would like to know how you came to that conclusion. The OP is from Germany and is collecting abandoned bottles in the street and there are closed loop recycling programs in place. You return the bottle to the store, you get your 25 cents back, the bottle gets crushed and recycled into a new one. That kind of does work. Multiuse bottles are better, but I really struggle to understand how “Picking up discarded plastic bottles” releases more microplastics than letting those bottles out in the environment where they will become 100% microplastic