Rulecycling

Ban plastic for consumables, glass and cardboard forever!!!
- Glass soda bottles just hit different™ I would pay extra if it's an option
  
  They do, but you're not supposed to hit people with them.
  
  Here you can get them at most grocery stores. It's also usually the standard for German Brands, it's mostly Coca Cola Brands that are sold in Single-Use-Plastic
  
  I've stopped drinking from plastic bottles completely. And glass bottled soda is so rare here that I buy it whenever I come across it.
  Sadly my preferred brand of cider recently changed from glass bottles to plastic ones, so I'm looking around.
- In case you didn't know, I think you might like to know: In Germany they also do reusable PET and reusable glass.
  
  "reusable" in really big quotation marks
- I believe that glass is more of a solution than a problem. Compared to plastic, it is more durable, its production process has less impact on the environment and not to mention that in the case of beverages, returnable glass packaging is better in several aspects
  
  Multi-use glass is were it's at. Producing glass is an energy intense process, the more you use it the bettet it gets. Single use glass packaging is a crime. (Same goes for plastics multi-use>single-use)
  
  glass is theoretically more sustainable, while its production does not involve the same kind of problems as plastic it is a lot more energy intensive so without proper energy infrastructure it is trading plastic pollution for carbon emissions, also heavier contributing to transport costs. With proper infrastructure for reusing the bottles the energy impact of production can be mitigated significantly. and even without proper reusage infrastructure the options for the glass is 1. resmelted into new glass 2. landfill->glass shards quickly become essentially just sand 3. environment where it also becomes sand
  so while even without proper infrastructure the pollutans are essentially just emissions if properly treated just co2 (though modern kilns can be electric arc reducing emissions just to that of the country's electricity infrastructure) and gravel. In contrast plastic has lower production emissions but the waste in environment is to put it lightly quite a bit more harmful than gravel and the effects are still not fully understood especially ones of microplastics
  
  Glas is not used anymore because it's much heavier (= more expensive when freight is charged by weight) and breaks when you drop the palett.
  
  There have been extensive studies on that topic, that showed that PET-bottles are more sustainable and environment friendly than glass bottles and have less impact on the environmdnt. Glass bottles use a lot more energy to produce and transport than PET bottles, and the oil you save by using PET instead of glass is more than enough to produce the PET you need. You also save sand, potash, limestone, soda and a ton of CO2.
  If renewables would become the prime source of energy for glass production and transportation, this conclusion might change, and if the effects of microplastics and ocean pollution are considered it might change as well.
  Regarding sources, there is an abundance of them in German and quite a few in English. I'll leave this one as an example.
- Cellophane, jute, wood and metal are good as well
- and use what instead?
  
  I literally answered it lmao
  
  What did people use before plastic? Glass and cardboard!

At max that's 5.95 an hour or at minimum 3.96 an hour. Kinda shitty pay, and 60% of what was recycled was just burned anyway. That numbers for Germany BTW where it's the highest in the world. On average less than 9 percent gets to be new plastic worldwide.
The weight loss is good to see though. Excersize is good for your body and spirit
Anyway next I'm off to tell some kids Santa isn't real and that the tooth fairy is just their already poor parents giving them money to have them believe there's magic in this world preserving their sense of wonder a little while longer.
- Oh boy, here I go ranting against misinformation about recycling again.
  Your claim that 60% of these bottles will be burned is false. The recycling quota for single-use plastic bottles in Germany is 97.6% (2023; source).
  60% was the quota of all non-recycled plastic packaging material combined, back in 2018. This quota has further decreased since, and is now at about 30% (2023, source), so almost 70% of all plastic packaging in Germany is recycled. It's still not perfect, but far, far better than just burning everything.
  Recycling isn't an easy and cheap process, but it can definitely work and be steadily improved, if it's properly implemented. I'm so tired of this dumb suggestion, that recycling is bad because it's not perfect (or, in the case of the US, full of corruption). Every bit of plastic that isn't polluting the environment is a win. And recycling is definitely helping with that. As opposed to propagating false information on the internet.
  
  So separating my plastics when I bring them to the Wertstoffhof actually makes sense? I never bothered because I've always been told it gets all thrown together anyway.
  
  People's main gripe with it is that a huge percentage of plastic has traditionally just been separated and then would either still end up in a landfill or sent to China or wherever to recycle. I don't know however how much of a case that is still.
  
  Do they still count energetic recycling (aka burning in a power plant) as recycling?
- You’re forgetting the person is also making the streets a cleaner place, having fun ( I enjoy picking litter), great for mental health, and choose your own hours.
- That's complete Bullshit. PET which is what these bottles are made of has a recycling quote of 98% and over half of the PET used in the production of new bottles is coming from recycled bottles
- As the other commenter said, the bottles actually get recycled; if they weren't they wouldn't have a system where they pay for the return. And it doesn't make sense to count it as "pay", as in compare to a normal job pay, cause it's not. Dude is walking around and cleaning the environment, gets free PS5 out of it.
- Doing God's work
  
  That lazy fucker should come down more often and to their own work.

All that work collecting garbage to buy garbage.

You get 25c?? We only get 15c, not worth the PS level effort.
- In ireland its 15c for small bottles, and 25c for large ones.
- Here in Arkansas, I don't know any "trash" that you can pick up for a deposit. I think when I was a small child in the 80s you could do glass bottles, but when plastic came in that ended. As a teen, and up to maybe a decade ago, you could get paid for aluminum scrap (by weight), but both of the metal recycling places in my county (Polk) do not pay for aluminum anymore (they will accept it, but not pay for it).
- We get 5-10. And were one of the most expensive countries to live in.
  
  You also pay the amount, it's a deposit.
  
  We don't get them ;)
  
  Which country is that?

Pfand sollte in mehr Ländern eingeführt werden
- Meine rumänische Arbeitskollegin hat mir gestern erzählt es sei in Rumänien eingeführt worden. Es gab wohl Schlangen bei der Abgabe weil alle es ausprobieren wollten :-)
  
  mir war nicht bekannt dass Deutschland das Pfand-Modell exportiert hat. Sehr cool zu wissen dass andere Länder es übernehmen

I'm fond of the Phand.

Here we get 3 cents for every bottle. I don't think I'll be buying a PS5 anytime soon.

We get 5 cents per kilogram. Plastic bottles should be banned. I support glass.

Or you could have worked for a couple of days but yea, that's nice I guess
- Maybe they do work and barely get by and so they did this part time each day for extra spending money.
  
  Yeah I work and I don't have money for a PS5 all willy nilly
- Maybe they are working? Maybe they are disabled? Who knows but don't gotta be a dick about it.
  
  I’m just saying that doesn’t really sound efficient, I’m not trying to be a dick