Mildly Infuriating

It would be so much easier if drink companies just used standardized containers instead of making their own homemade special designs to try and look fancy.

Orange juice was fine in a 2L cardboard box. We just recently got a jug of Tropicana or some shit and it's some fancy moulded pitcher shape with a spout and flip up plastic lid. That just makes everything more difficult, especially recycling because it will be a pain to rinse out I bet.

Some can be recycled with the label on, but only if the plastic used is the type that can be recycled

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that only true if the plastic uses for the label is in the same category (same recycling symbol) as the bottle?

Nah, get the fuck outta here with that bullshit.

Ignoring the fact that hardly any plastic is actually recyclable in the first place, your argument is that conscious consumers should accept additional responsibilities on the off chance that it MIGHT actually get recycled?

We figured out how to print on basically any surface a long time ago. How about we hold companies to a standard of responsible packaging, instead of yet again passing the buck to the end user.

Tell me you don’t understand what community you’re in without actually telling me lmao

Separation requirements vary. In the UK, plastic bottle caps are generally tethered to the bottle now to prevent people from separating them.

Shhhh, if they don't know they still feel good about it

Recycling in Japan is a very involved process. You end up with like, 4 different bags of recyclable types, depending. I appreciate it.

It's like this in Europe too, it's just one, ahem, country that's a decade behind everyone, every time

Truth is, it doesn't matter anyway, because over 90% of plastic isn't being recycled.
This whole thing (the removable label to supposedly make the bottle more recyclable) is an exercise in futility and virtue signalling to the "green" demographic for profit, aka greenwashing.

Edit to be clear: the answer is to abolish capitalism, which is why all of this is happening in the first place.

nah, we put ours in the hillside. trash hill's getting chonky

Cartons have plastic too, yeah? Cause plain cardboard isn't staying mess free for long if you fill it with milk. That said, it's probably less plastic, though this is also less plastic than just making the whole jug non-recyclable. Why they don't just make the label recyclable too is beyond me.

CANADIAN

We used to get it in glass bottles, and the bottles would be reused (not melted down).

Just a shame getting it that way costs about 3-4 times as much as a big four pint plastic jug from Tesco.

Imagine the massive inconvenience of having to separate plastics to recycle when you literally work at a plastic recycling plan.