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Originally Posted by finnbow
Simple issues such as reusable beverage containers for beer, soft drinks and bottled water have been solved and have been fully accepted/implemented in Europe for decades, but are a complete non-starter here, mostly due to the political influence of the throwaway beverage container industry.
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Europeans also have community collection points that are withing walking distances of residences.
On the other hand Americans try to make recycleing convenient by giving each customer a recycling tub and then driving a seperate recycleing truck to each house to collect the tub contents. Then the industry says wah, it's too inefficient.
Everything in the US is a scam, I swear to God. I should even write about this stuff. I'll just blow a gasket about Uhmuricah's exceptionalism actually being near the bottom of the civilized world. Uhmuricans need to get out more.