• squaresinger@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    PET bottle recycling is the only part of plastics recycling that actually works. Making sure the bottle caps are also correctly returned to recycling plants is a good goal. Also it makes picking up litter a little easier, because now you only need to pick up one thing instead of two.

    Btw, this is why clothing/bags/… made out of recycled plastic bottles is actually a terrible idea, because once the PET is out of the bottle recycling stream it is permanently removed from this recycling loop and new PET needs to be produced to compensate.

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      4 months ago

      while i can appreciate the goal and potential result, those attached caps are terribly impractical, i wish they’d find a better solution

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        4 months ago

        Do you know that these caps can be overextended? They have a second open position, where they are opened at ~180°. At that position they don’t flop back closed and are quite well out of the way.

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          3 months ago

          nah they dont go far enough for my big nose and that makes it awkward and messy, may depend on the bottle and the nose i guess