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   jacqueline 🌟 (jacqueline@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2024 07:29:01 JST jacqueline 🌟

   coles brand bread is still advertised as coming in recyclable packaging through the in-store ‘redcycle’ program, which shut down almost 2 years ago

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2024 07:28:59 JST SuperDicq

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     @jacqueline@chaos.social Also the practicality of programs like these are ridiculous, which is probably why they realized it was a bad idea and why they shut it down.
     
     Sure for one or two packaging materials you could save them up and bring them back to the store.
     
     But imagine if for every single piece of packaging of every product you consumed you had to remember which store it came from and then don't forget to bring it back to that store. You'd have garbage piling up at home for sure.
     
     Unless you just threw it into the recycling bin with all the other packaging from different brands together, because it's all the same material anyway...

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2024 07:50:34 JST SuperDicq

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     @jacqueline@chaos.social Oh yeah that seems like a typical "the market will solve it" solution. Good for marketing, extremely ineffective at actually changing anything for the better.
     
     In the Netherlands for the past decade or so we all have soft plastic recycling bins at home. Putting plastic in the recycling bin is greatly incentivized because it gets picked up for free, compared to putting it in the regular bin that the municipality usually charges money for. So the more you recycle, the less you pay.
     
     How much of the plastic actually gets recycled into new plastic is unfortunately unclear for some reason, estimates vary between 14% to 46%.
     
     One thing that is for certain tho is that we do not do landfills anymore. All of our not recycled garbage gets incinerated to generate energy, which I mean is not ideal but definitely better than landfills.

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     jacqueline 🌟 (jacqueline@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2024 07:50:35 JST jacqueline 🌟

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     @SuperDicq have a read up on redcycle specifically, it's a real hoot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REDcycle

     tldr they were just renting out huge warehouses and storing everything.