I’m looking at an empty bottle of Valentina hot sauce. It has a flip top cap but is not twist off and seems to be press fitted on in some way - ideally there would be a way to easily remove it and re-purpose the container or at least clean it out for recycling.

With some recent legislation in some countries to standardize USB-C it got me wondering if there are pushes elsewhere or if maybe it’s just my country just hasn’t caught up on things.

  • etchinghillside@reddthat.comOP
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, I usually assume anything I put in recycling ends up in the same location as everything else. I can usually find a few temporary or permanent uses of containers though if I don’t have to slice my hand apart trying to gnaw off press fit cap.

    Understandably this is the results of cost savings and profit.

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      1 year ago

      Well, you’re doing the right thing with re-using containers yourself. It was always Reduce, Re-use, Recycle, with Recycle being dead last and least important of the three. Recycling isn’t inherently bad, but corporations leaned on it for decades as a way to wipe away their own responsibilities and hand them over to consumers and the recycling industry. It’s mostly just been abused, despite being the least important.