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If you can’t outright solve a problem you shouldn’t try to improve the situation >:(

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How is this improving the situation. Do people only throw away the caps? I think this is just some stupid law so that they can say they tried. I still think soda cans are just a better solution and make it mandatory that companies recycle their own waste.

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I still think soda cans are just a better solution

That actually sounds like a good idea to me, or you could make them similar in design to those water-bottles that have the cap meant to stay with the bottle, shown in:

this image (branding removed)

Whereas the existing design is similar to the old pull tabs that were on cans which caused ecological damage when people discarded them on the ground.

I wish they’d instead go after the big companies doing the majority of the damage, but I suppose this’s where the cards lay. (For now)

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I think its easily solvable you just make it mandatory that companies recycle their own bottles and they WILL find a way to make it cheao.

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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

the old pull tabs

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15 points

The parks in my area have far more bottle caps on the ground than bottles

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Do people only throw away the caps?

Well yes, many throw caps and bottle separately and the people that throw their trash anywhere will certainly not care about the caps.

make it mandatory that companies recycle their own waste.

Lol.

In what country is it mandatory for companies to recycle soda cans ?

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6 points

Germany, actually lol

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4 points

Sweden.

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2 points

Denmark lol

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unfortunately yes, i’ve seen lots of just caps thrown around as litter

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4 points

Or just introduce the Pfand system Europe wide

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2 points

Pant is great.

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It sucks so much to not be able to throw cans into recycling and be done with it.

Every week or so I carry some stinky bag of beer cans to these machines and I hate it.

Other countries should not be forced to implement this.

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1 point

Soda cans have lots of plastic in them.

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What? Soda Cans are made of aluminum, aren’t they?

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Bummer. I guess glass it is then.

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What? Don’t be ridiculous. Of course you should still try to improve the situation. That’s like saying trucks that get 7MPG are bad for the environment but don’t bother making trucks that get 20MPG because it still runs on fossil fuels.

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It was sarcasm

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