Australia

that "please recycle" triangle arrow thing is pretty much a scam.

That triangle arrow logo is a scam at the best of times. It's supposed to contain a number saying what type of plastic it is. In practice type "1", PET, is the only type that is viable for recycle. It may be possible to recycle other numbers but it's preclusively expensive. So while they've chosen a logo that makes plastic generally look like it's recyclable, it's not really the case.

Anyhow, with this particular logo there's no number. They've put it there to make it look like their product is recyclable, but it's just not.

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! 😱

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But the ‘please recycle’ thing I believe is outdated.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.