I have a reciept from the grocery store, an IGA, that shows I paid a Recycle Fee of 4cents and a Deposit of 20c on 4l. jug of water for $3.99.
WHat is all that? If I take it into the bottle depot and get my 20c, is it THEN recycled and I pay the 4c for that too? doesn't anyone make money off recycling plastic, the world's most recyclable material?
Perhaps to encourage a business to start up a plastic recycling facility, they collect this 4c?
So where does the 20c go?
Anyways, plastic recycling is not what it should or could be. It is very much reusable, just heat and serve. The petrochemical industry that produces all the plastic should take the horns on recycling it, so as to make best use of our resources.
Oh ya, they are shareholder's resources and they get the sayso. [i don't like the capitalist system].
Less waste, less profits, in the case of plastics industry.Regulators could have done this better. Most of what we have used over the past 50 years is in landfills or floating in the oceans. It is a huge a problem - one area of the Pacific has a gigantic 'swirl' of plastic bits, little shreds, cycling around, and all the fish and creatures there have it in their tissues.
Plastic tossed in the ocean will never come back to reduce sales of new plastic, where the biggest profits are, due to the monoply the majors enjoy where they produce the raw material AND they refine it themselves [another branch of same corporation] .
If there were true competition, not a closed loop, the price of the raw material [nat gas] would be higher than recycled material, as is normal, esp when all the fees for collecting it are added in, and when refining the raw plastic VS re-heating recycled plastic are compared.
You can't make plastic for "less than plasic costs to make"...and recycled plastic is plastic, so it should be cheaper. Much of it is never recycled, reused, etc. Much of the collections end up in the landfill or oceans - Micheal Moore showed us that evidence in one of his movies.
The few products we see that come from re-using plastic are very good. More please!
As consumers, we can avoid plastic in our purchase choices...Geez, how dumb to put good water in pastic jugs - glass would be more appropriate since plastic gives off various toxins to that water I paid for. I can't find any water sold in glas, can you?
Thanks,
Karlin.
WHat is all that? If I take it into the bottle depot and get my 20c, is it THEN recycled and I pay the 4c for that too? doesn't anyone make money off recycling plastic, the world's most recyclable material?
Perhaps to encourage a business to start up a plastic recycling facility, they collect this 4c?
So where does the 20c go?
Anyways, plastic recycling is not what it should or could be. It is very much reusable, just heat and serve. The petrochemical industry that produces all the plastic should take the horns on recycling it, so as to make best use of our resources.
Oh ya, they are shareholder's resources and they get the sayso. [i don't like the capitalist system].
Less waste, less profits, in the case of plastics industry.Regulators could have done this better. Most of what we have used over the past 50 years is in landfills or floating in the oceans. It is a huge a problem - one area of the Pacific has a gigantic 'swirl' of plastic bits, little shreds, cycling around, and all the fish and creatures there have it in their tissues.
Plastic tossed in the ocean will never come back to reduce sales of new plastic, where the biggest profits are, due to the monoply the majors enjoy where they produce the raw material AND they refine it themselves [another branch of same corporation] .
If there were true competition, not a closed loop, the price of the raw material [nat gas] would be higher than recycled material, as is normal, esp when all the fees for collecting it are added in, and when refining the raw plastic VS re-heating recycled plastic are compared.
You can't make plastic for "less than plasic costs to make"...and recycled plastic is plastic, so it should be cheaper. Much of it is never recycled, reused, etc. Much of the collections end up in the landfill or oceans - Micheal Moore showed us that evidence in one of his movies.
The few products we see that come from re-using plastic are very good. More please!
As consumers, we can avoid plastic in our purchase choices...Geez, how dumb to put good water in pastic jugs - glass would be more appropriate since plastic gives off various toxins to that water I paid for. I can't find any water sold in glas, can you?
Thanks,
Karlin.
