Переработка - лишь миф, на распространение которого потратили миллионы

[onb2017]

Знакомая гражданка стала свидетельницей инцидента: в приемной лаборатории, где она проходила тест на ковид, другая гражданка отказалась надеть бахилы, потому что они одноразовые и их не перерабатывают. Похвально! Этакий борец против загрязнения окружающей среды, да еще и протестированный на коронавирус.

Знакомая возмутилась и заявила, что чистота

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[matrixmann]

If for some glas items which come as a vessel for yogurt or pudding or whatever, there is often a little thought before throwing it away "Can we use this for something else in the household?".
If it is the case that it doesn't have any deposit on it...
For example, there are a lot of flat glass vessels from Crème Brûlée desserts here that I tend to use for small flower pots as cachepot because of lacking such for that size. I think, I even have two or three from other types of desserts, which came in clay vessels that I kept for that purpose because clay is no problem during summer for plants that are placed on the outside (because clay can't get hot from the sun and the heat).

Well, and other than that, I'm a pretty big friend of collecting everything that has deposit money on it, whether it is my stuff or stuff that I just find while passing by anywhere. (Some people are even so freaking lazy in this, if they can only get rid of the beer bottles in one shop, but not rid of the crate, they put the bottles in the reverse vending machine and leave the crate standing there. Although even the empty beer crate gets you 1,50 €. - Also, if I find anything standing in the corner of these vending machines which I know about that you only can't turn it into money in this store chain because they don't sell that particular drink, but in another, then I take that crap with me and hand it in in a store which does so. - People are so lazy, and still must have too many money left in their wallets, that they rather throw bottles with deposit on them away in the trash than carrying them to another store which takes them back in return for money...)

[onb2017]

Yeah, i save some jelly jars sometimes and it is actually useful.

And hell yeah if glass bottles make money back, why not!

[matrixmann]

Explaining the current deposit system here - what has deposit on it and what not - I think is too complicated to explain...
At least, what I wanted to say is: If you get any money back for it, be sure I'll carry it back to a store that gives me some.
I don't know if that also accounts for "doing a little share in the overall misery", but, as far as I can see it, there are people which do lesser even in that. Just from plain laziness.

[onb2017]

It probably does account, at least as much as possible

[matrixmann]

I remember, during the Covid summers (I think last year more than this one, but this one still), the manufacturers of drinks, especially beer, had campaigns running about "people, if yougot empty bottles, please bring them back to the stores as soon as possible, so we can refill them again (for you)!" because the whole restaurant and pub business couldn't work as normally and all the smaller and bigger festivals had been cancelled, so the business with drinks was missing a lot of demand that arose from that every year.
So they tried to compensate those losses by trying to sell their now superfluous brew through the normal consumer market (as pubs and restaurants weren't open and could only do food delivery or fetching ordered food, people themselves also tended to buy the beer they would drink from the consumer market). - And for that one, they didn't have as many vessels to fill them as they had best wished (because usually they don't need them).

So they launched campaigns and hints to make people conscious "if you wanna drink your beer at home that you'd usually drink at the pub or at the village festival at this time of the year, please return your empty bottles as soon as possible to the shops, so we can actually bring it to you".

It was especially about beer, as this suffered the most from all the cancelled festivals and business sectors, and the stores also did way more offerings for that during that time - like "now buy three crates very cheaply" instead of combinating only 2 crates for a weekly offering.

Anyway... this was just a moment/situation where you could realize how important for the production chain for drinks the deposit and the vessels designed for reuse actually are.