I'd forgotten that Marx, Engels and Liebknecht were Eskimos.
...and still they never amounted to much.....the revolutions were elsewhere!
To describe litter-free bottle caps as "fighting the majority" is just bizarre.
...but the truth! Environmental protection is a natural point for the conservatives....they even have it in their name....to "conserve"....to protect what is good! The real Left gives a flying **** about the environment....there was never a more stinking mud than the GDR!
A successfull green party/green policy will happen with the rightist, with the center, with the conservatives or not at all....mark my words!
An irritation that probably does no good for the environment
I'm really flabbergasted. What irritation? A 4 and a 7 yo in my family didn't even notice the difference. I'm sure that if such small kids manage adults should have no problems. It seems to be people who are irritated by it simply want to be irritated.
From what I read it's also about the sorting machines. Even if the cap was thrown into recycling it wasn't being recycled because of its size.
What do you mean it is a pain to unscrew all those plastic bottles? They added another difficulty level to it just to annoy people. /it is pure malice. If they were about ecological stuff they would ban plastic battles completely and we would have glass bottles with metal or plastic tops.
An irritation that probably does no good for the environment
in Poland there was a number of charities that collected (asked people to collect) plastic bottle tops which were later sold for profit for recycling - since it is illegal now to dispose of the bottles without the tops they are pretty screwed
It is indeed. It's like with those paper drinking straws that melt in your mouth whilst disposable plastic cups and plastic cup covers are still used. Not to mention plastic bags, plastic boxes and plastic pretty much everything. But the drinking straw must be paper - not because it's ecological, as you have to use 3 of those before you finish your drink, but just to show you that you are a piece of sh*t who has nothing to say, they can decree what they want, and there's nothing you can do about it.
And there's a cherry on top - those paper drinking straws, which are supposed to be used to reduce plastic waste, come in plastic packaging (to avoid contamination because paper is hygroscopic ha ha :D). So the purpose is not ecology but to show you your place, your worth (zero). Green Khmers are ruthless.
I'm sure they'll find other activities. And of course their very existence confirms that there was an issue.
disposable plastic cups and plastic cup covers are still used
Hopefully not for long.
plastic bags
They actually require only minuscule amounts of crude oil to make, however the problem is that people weren't recycling them and they take centuries to biodegrade.
Several people here just looking to moan about change.
they weren't collecting them from the streets and sidewalks
Who said they were?
The fact that the bottle caps were hanging around and not being disposed of is the issue. Did you think that most people used such containers? I've never seen one.
Now that has been solved to the satisfaction of the majority.
no it wasn't like that at all - people deliberately kept bottle tops to give to the charities - even schools sometimes asked pupils to bring bottle tops when they were involved in some kind of charities or to raise funds for their own projects - what I believe it was much more probable that plastic bottle tops would go to waste if they were binned than when people gathered them and then gave them to charities etc
no it wasn't like that at all - people deliberately kept
How many people? Poland has 38 million
It's a good thing to do, but no longer any need to keep bottle tops. There's plenty of other plastic items however that are available to be saved for recycling by charities or other groups.
It was a commendable effort, albeit with a significant error on your part. BB was discussing the country, and you altered the context by referring to individuals; it's not equivalent, even though the Eskimo reference was clever, albeit incorrect, from my viewpoint.
Again, with the change of direction and evasion, you were promoting the benefits to the environment, but suddenly, it is not the environment; it is hardly a burden. Give me a break.