GiddyGap@lemm.ee to News@lemmy.world · 10 months agoNew York sues PepsiCo over plastic pollution along riverwww.axios.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up1226arrow-down13
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minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down9·10 months agoHow is it Pepsi’s fault that their consumers are assholes? Maybe make citywide recycling programs clean, easy to use, and accessible? Heck, Oregon figured this out in 1971 - $0.05 deposit on cans, $0.10 on glass bottles. Recently upped to $0.10 on everything. Turn the cans and bottles into recycling, get the money back. Taking cans and bottles back to the store was how I went to the movies as a kid.
minus-squareGiddyGap@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down2·10 months agoMost other developed countries have done this for decades on end. Unfortunately, in many red states there’s an aversion against recycling and cash value for returning. You know, government overreach, yada yada.
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·10 months agoOh, agreed, but this is New York… home of the large soda tax…
How is it Pepsi’s fault that their consumers are assholes?
Maybe make citywide recycling programs clean, easy to use, and accessible?
Heck, Oregon figured this out in 1971 - $0.05 deposit on cans, $0.10 on glass bottles. Recently upped to $0.10 on everything.
Turn the cans and bottles into recycling, get the money back. Taking cans and bottles back to the store was how I went to the movies as a kid.
Most other developed countries have done this for decades on end. Unfortunately, in many red states there’s an aversion against recycling and cash value for returning. You know, government overreach, yada yada.
Oh, agreed, but this is New York… home of the large soda tax…