Map of the first world.
New whiteness map just dropped
All this time I thought every country bare the worst 3rd world shit holes were recycling or had systems in place to do so...
>>223396500We made it :D
>>223396621It's a retarded map, as is usually the case.
>>223397049It is about having a dedicated system for bottles and cans.
I simply do not buy plastic bottles.
>>223396500Do other firsties know that we ship all this trash to the third world and they dump it in their rivers and set it on fire? It's not really recycling, we let them handle it for us so we can feel good about ourselves.
>>223397185No. Our general waste get sent to Sweden and burned for energy in waste to energy plants. Aluminium we actually recycle ourselves. The Dutch recycle our plastic bottles.
>>223397256I think all our scrap metal goes to china so it can be sold back to us and all our plastic goes to south east asia where as I said it gets dumped into rivers or set on fire. Probably not for electricity.
Recycling plastic bottles is just retarded. Everyone can carry a bottle. Just have bottle washing and filling stations
>>223397405Not economically viable
and what would happen to the south east asian rivers if they weren't full of our plastic? what would the fish eat?
>>223396500only thirdies drink from fucking plastic bottles>>223397256>The Dutch recycle our plastic bottles.lolhttps://www.uu.nl/en/news/whereabouts-of-most-dutch-plastic-waste-surprisingly-unclear
we already have them
>>223396500why have that by law when a business could see value in that and set up a new branch around reciclyingthat's what we do here
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>>223396500they're great, I get 10 euro cents per bottle
>>223396500Vishwaguru July 27 2026 less go
>>223397049Two things: Our bottles are not thrown away, they are shredded, molten, and then new bottles are made from the recycled polyethylene. Second there's a deposit of 25 cents on each bottle so that even if they are thrown away, somebody will pick them up and return them for the deposit. You don't see empty bottles lying around. Of if you do, they're not there for long.
>>223398187Zis is how we do in Hungmany as well ja
>>223398229I like the system. It was put into law in the 1980s as a provision when the greens weren't even in power. The law said that when single use plastic bottles reach a certain percentage of sold beverages, a deposit and collection system would be introduced. And so it was in ... (have to look it up) ... 2003.
>>223398001Does India have a city tier system? China has a few cities were laws and regulations might be stricter than the rest of the country, to show the world how "developed" they are. In return they get more funding.
>>223398450>>223398450>China does good thing>"NOOOOO i's only for showing, they don't really care"
>>223396500Ever since they introduced this shit, i started littering. And i wreck the nottles and cans beforei throw them on the ground.I am not going to be the employee of those fuckers.The machines run on electricity, they hand out a piece of paper for me to go collect the money. How is this to help the environment?They are always not working, running on issues.Pocket my 10 cents you bunch of shitcunts. I don't give a fuck.Tiredmof this sheeple society. I will litter. I will open up my car wi dows and throw the rubbish away like a cavemen. Fuck all of you
>>223398450Yes we do, but it's informal. we refer to nice cities as tier 1 and go down from there, but the government has a different way of classifiying them, where tier 1 cities are "Class X" and tier 2 cities are "Class Y" and so on
i honestly doubt recycling plastic makes any economic sensejust don't use plastic
>>223398856Here glass bottles are often forbidden in public parks, in stadiums, on fairs and in hospitals. They can be dropped and then the shards can injure people. Or they can be used as weapons.Plastic bottles save energy used for transporting them. They're ground up and don't have to be washed like glass bottles, so that saves fresh water. In fact they have become so ubiquituous that glass bottles have become sort of a sign of higher quality/value drinks, mainly beers and wine, but also certain lemonades.
>>223398492Firsties are just salty.
>>223398960Ever heard of metal?
>>223398960yeah there are definitely major advantages to plastic, i just can't see recycling being one of them, unless there's been a revolution in tech i'm not aware of, that said i would never discount the possibility since people have come up with some weird stuff in the lab before
>>223399167No customer would pay for what it would cost to transport metal bottles from the factory to the supermarket.>>223399209I think the bottles are just compacted so that they doesn't take up much space, transported to a factory where they are ground into a granulate that can be melted, cleared of impurities, and then re-used to make new bottles.There's also multi-use plastic bottles that are coated with a film of glass inside and that are washed like 15 or 20 times, before they are ground up an melted. They're not as common as the cheap variant, though.
only ontario and manitoba knows
>>223399398Wait you actually don't put drinks in cans IN GERMANY?
>>223398856Well, on of the biggest reasons recycling plastic is hard is the sorting. This is why it makes a lot of sense to have a bottle recycling program, most plastic bottles are made out of the same type of plastic which makes recycling easier.
>>223396500>>223398187We used to have this for glass bottles when I was a kid and iirc they're bringing it back for plastic next year.
>>223399535>cansCans are limited in size and aren't as good for the enviromnent as huge amounts of electrity have to be used to melt them again.
>>223399637>Cans are limited in sizeWhat? No they aren't. >and aren't as good for the enviromnent as huge amounts of electrity have to be used to melt them again.Nonsense. It takes energy to reprocess plastic and glass (you should just throw out glass; it's just sand) too and metal isn't going to to break down into molecular scale toxic waste.
>used to have glass recycling, bottle and bottle cap collection, and water fountains all over>completely destroyed for plastic insteadlove having no fucking infrastructure me
>>223399723Show me a 1 liter or 1.5 liter can. There aren't any.
>>223396500>recyclingWe're the good guys, right?
>>223399916China effectively banned a lot of imports. They lowered the amount of impurities allowed to such a low level that the US had to stop their exports.
>>223396500Surprised Japan doesn't have it. I thought they were generally pretty decent about these things.
>>2233998170.045 picoseconds on google
>>223399916Completely vindicated
I recycled all my cans and bottles i’ve been lazily been saving up today, came out with 60€
>>223396621Wait till you figure out that your firstie cunt doesn't recycle the plastic at all and just sends it off to some dump in Asia
>>223403021Why would anyone do that, retard? Recycled bottles are one of the cleanest sources of recycled plastic and that shit sells like hotcakes.HIVans, I swear...
>>223400118>I thought they were generally pretty decent about these thingsWhich is why they don't need a deposit system to get people to recycle.
>>223396500just buying your stuff in glass bottles is better tho
>>223397160>It is about having a dedicated system for bottles and cans.These are just called trash cans in the greatest country on this planet.
>>223403085It's been happening for years. Plastic doesn't recycle well anyway. After its heated and reformed multiple times it's basically useless. Read a book nigger
>>223396500feel like some of these might not be countries
>>223403085Also it doesn't sell like hotcakes. New plastic us cheaper than recycled plastic. It actually sells pretty badly comparatively
>>223403085Because the precursor to create new plastic is being given away for free as they're byproducts from the oil/gas/coal industry and recycling is more expensive than the new stuff.
>>223403435>>223403460You don't know what you're talking about, retard. Look up what plastics bottles are made up. Or go step into a landmine, you worthless piece of shit.
>>223403523It's more expensive when you have a mixed set of plastics in a bin. Expect plastic bottles are already sorted. And when everyone wants to print "made from recycled materials" in their packaging, it creates huge demand. But the russoshit retard can't even think that far in his deluded hivanganda.
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