http://polizeros.com/2007/05/06/genuine-recycling/ Musings on politics: anti-war, global warming, peak oil and otherwise Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:59:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://polizeros.com/2007/05/06/genuine-recycling/comment-page-1/#comment-135093 DJ Mon, 07 May 2007 19:42:39 +0000 http://polizeros.com/2007/05/06/genuine-recycling/#comment-135093 That is a timely idea. So much of our packaging cannot be recylcled just for lack of labelling. For example, although plastic soda bottles and milk jugs are recyclable, the caps and rings are not made of the same plastic. (The bottles are PETE while the caps are often HDPE or something else.) But for the consumer the caps are just trash, because they're not labelled for recycling. Same with the plastic labels that are increasingly used. That is a timely idea. So much of our packaging cannot be recylcled just for lack of labelling. For example, although plastic soda bottles and milk jugs are recyclable, the caps and rings are not made of the same plastic. (The bottles are PETE while the caps are often HDPE or something else.) But for the consumer the caps are just trash, because they’re not labelled for recycling. Same with the plastic labels that are increasingly used.

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