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    Post Plastic Bottlers Are Lying About Recycling “100% recyclable”? In your dreams…

    Plastic Bottlers Are Lying About Recycling




    “100% recyclable”? In your dreams, Coca-Cola.

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    What a wonderful thing it is to purchase an ice-cold bottle of water from a major global brand and see these comforting words of guilt-free consumption right there on the label: “100% recyclable.” Makes the drink go down so much easier, doesn’t it?


    Too bad it’s not true.


    On the contrary, the product Americans use at a rate of 3,400 every second—100 billion a year—is far more likely to end up in rivers, oceans, roadside, landfills, and incinerators than inside any sort of recycled product.


    On June 16, federal lawsuits were filed by the Sierra Club and a group of California consumers against major bottled water manufacturers Coca-Cola, Niagara, and BlueTriton (a subsidiary of global giant Nestlé). The suits allege that these companies’ labeling and marketing claims about the full recyclability of their beverage bottles are not just a little off, but blatantly false and a violation of consumer and environmental protection laws. They accuse the three global beverage titans of unfair business practices, false advertising, consumer fraud, and violations of state environmental marketing claims laws and Federal Trade Commission regulations.



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    Plastic bottles can be useful:

    Scientists develop method to recycle plastic bottles into aviation fuel using less energy


    Humans produce more than 6 billion tons of plastic every year, and its accumulation in landfills and oceans is considered by many to be an environmental crisis. Only 9% of plastics are recycled in the U.S., and while bans on single-use plastic bags and straws have some benefits, we’re nowhere near addressing the volume of tossed plastic bottles and containers, toys, furniture and other items.

    Researchers at Washington State University have developed one approach to recycling discarded plastics: turning them back into the petroleum products from which most of them came by using a process called hydrogenolysis.


    The scientists take polyethylene — which is better known as number 1 plastic — and apply heat, a chemical catalyst and solvents to break the material into jet fuel components or other hydrocarbon products. The process takes roughly an hour and a temperature of 220 degrees Celsius, or 428 degrees Fahrenheit, and converts 90% of the plastic into fuel. Researchers from the University of Washington and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory collaborated on the project.


    “Converting waste plastics for fuel could significantly reduce the accumulated solid waste in landfills,” said Hongfei Lin, associate professor in the Gene and Linda Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering at WSU, who led the study. “If the waste plastics are mismanaged, they will end up in oceans and slowly decompose to numerous microplastic particles, carrying contaminants and entering the food chain.”
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    Hemp will save the planet if allowed to...

    https://hempwiki.com/product/hemp-plastic/

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    Quote Originally Posted by jigglepete View Post
    Hemp will save the planet if allowed to...

    https://hempwiki.com/product/hemp-plastic/
    It won't be allowed to, unfortunately.
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