Matt Vestengen-CoxPOV: Travelling outside of Europe
Source: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZCfUCzhHPR/ #video #reel #europe
s10n
SamuelJohnson@samueljohnson @matt @aral
So we love them for the little positive effect they have and not hate them for the massive #greenwashing of statistics they are intended for, effectively halving the amount of *seperate* pieces of trash that end up anywhere but the trash?
Just asking, guys.
Glad we're not stuck on the "I can't drink out of a bottle with these connected caps"-non-issue of the discussion anymore.
Wait, looks like we are.
@s10n @matt @aral Sorry, I don't understand your objection. It seems there is nothing the EU does that doesn't irritate some people bc it's too much or not enough.
The vast bulk of bottle caps are now recycled, along with the rest of plastic bottles on which a deposit is now paid. To many morons, the kind that likes to toss such things out car windows, this is tyranny. If they were responsible people we wouldn't need tethered caps and deposits.
Paavi (ei se paavi)@samueljohnson @s10n @matt @aral It's also often a bliss that I no longer accidentally drop a bottle cap while drinking and or handling the cap. Less stress when I don't want to finish the contents in one go and carry the bottle some distance. (Though just last week I wss served a bottle of water with an old style cap on a train in Germany. No idea why.)
@s10n @matt @aral Perhaps before resorting to jibes about #greenwashing it would be an idea to become familiar with the facts?
Here's some information for one country
https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/1024/1477146-bottle-collection/
@samueljohnson @matt @aral
You realize Irelands deposit scheme has little to do with the EUs decision to connect caps to bottles, do you?
The main reason was indeed the statistical one (turning to pieces of trash into one).
Not saying it's a bad thing, I'm actually all for it and find it laughable, when people claim they can't use bottles anymore. But let's not overstate the bottlecap-thing.
If the EU actually wanted to do something about plastic waste, they'd push towards glass bottles.
@s10n @matt @aral Do you ever bother doing any research? There's plenty of information online if you'd care to inform yourself instead of making petty snarks and jibes about greenwashing
https://www.packaging-gateway.com/news/deposit-return-schemes-in-focus-as-europe-tightens-rules/
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921344924005536
You're muted now. Bye.
And thus everybody crawled back into their own #bubble and noone had learned a thing. But at least, another voice that still got through got muted.
#success #peoplesuck #socialmedia
ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES@s10n @samueljohnson @matt @aral
no, we learned something
we found a classic performance of the "just asking questions" style of trolling on mastodon
@s10n @samueljohnson @matt @aral
"Just asking, guys."
i am familiar with the classic "just asking questions" style of trolling, but i did not expect the troll to just come right out and say that
you need some remedial trolling instruction, your performance is not up to contemporary standards
