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[–] 26 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I would wash and recycle those so hard.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Weird that you would have an erection while washing these....

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I'd skip the middle man and put them in the trash.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Those are likely PET bottles which are highly recyclable. There are a few plastics that are recyclable in large enough pieces. It's just that so much of our packaging and products are just mixed or thin plastics with a lot of printing which are not in any way recyclable.

    Now when I say recyclable I mean plausibly do-able at scale, with a decent quality output material suitable as feedstock for manufacturing, not profitably recyclable. I don't think any plastic recycling is profitable.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago

    Even the plastics that are actually able to be recycled generally aren't. I still throw them in the recycling bin, but all the evidence suggests that the vast majority of recyclable plastics specifically sorted to be recycled just... aren't.

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