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[–] TimePencil@infosec.exchange 1 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

@BlueSquid0741

Are Ice Break (2 litre) bottles not recyclable?

There's no deposit on them, but they're marked with "please recycle".

@Davriellelouna

The back of a 2 litre Ice Break (ice coffee) bottle.

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago

Holy crap, @BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org is right about their lack of recyclability. Just think of the plastics garbage volume all our tradies will be generating! 😱

[–] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

I’ve never seen a 2l bottle of it. I think 750ml is the usual one?

But the ‘please recycle’ thing I believe is outdated. Packaging now tells you what to do with components of the packaging, as an example something might say “Bottle” and have a recycle symbol, “Cap” and have a recycle symbol, “Foil seal” and have a bin symbol.

Tetrapaks will have the recycle symbol but say under it “Check locally”. Well when I looked into that there’s almost nowhere in the country that accepts recycling of tetrapaks.

Anyway. I got an ice break a few months ago for the first time in years and I think it was either “Rubbish” or “check locally”. But I used ice break as an example because they annoyed me not using easily recyclable packaging like other flavoured milk bottles.

Contradicts what I said earlier I know. You got me thinking about it a bit more what I remember being on their bottle.