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The myth of plastic recycling is finally unravelling (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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A UK article with some interesting facts and info about plastic recycling.

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[–] Dave 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We started to go to Bin Inn for this, but then COVID happened and we never went back. I should try to make a special effort to get back to using them, because you're right, a lot of the time the packaging is not necessary at all.

Companies are buying 25kg bags of flour and repackaging it into smaller bags, when we should just be taking a container to a store and scooping in what we want.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

i don't think the current situation is even that good, they're not repackaging themselves they just straight up ship in the small flour bags all the way from the factory.

[–] Dave 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

My assumption is that they get milled at one place, shipped in big bags to another factory to package it into smaller bags, then shipped to supermarkets (probably after being shipped to a distribution centre).