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Lack of recyclability shits me. Especially when something that used to be packaged in cardboard is suddenly being sold in plastic.
Also, most plastic bottles are recyclable. Plastic bottles used for juice, flavoured milks, and water from the fridge section, recycle that shit! But not if it’s Ice Break. Those big chunky Ice Break bottles that seem no-brainer recyclable are clearly marked as non-recyclable.
Soft plastics can be recycled, but the (trained) labour to sort is prohibitively expensive.
Tyres can also be recycled, but the labour liability makes them prohibitively expensive in first-world-countries.
They can also both also be processed as Biochar, but the environmental cost is also prohibitively expensive: tyres result in Sulfur-contaminated charcoal and soft plastics are not the most efficient material to convert into charcoal.
My sister worked at a sorting facility. It is shutting down permanently at the end of the year.
Not a good sign :(