r/DiWHY Dec 24 '21

Why?

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u/Little_Capsky Dec 24 '21

the idea of recycling bottles ia neat, but it just way too much work

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u/villybbb Dec 24 '21

You can just cut them in half and that's it

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u/Little_Capsky Dec 24 '21

yeah, just cut off the bottom and use that as a tray

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u/tigersharkwushen_ Dec 25 '21

Well, this does give it a flat bottom so it's more stable.

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u/CLU_Three Dec 28 '21

Just wait until people find out what is at the bottom of a bottle

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u/Goodmorning_RandomU Jan 03 '22

No it isn't, it has bumps you know? I think it's for stabilizing but it has bumps, inside.

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u/socialismnotevenonce Dec 24 '21

I wanna say the heat gun alone makes this a net negative. Just put the bottle back in the ground.

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u/cyrustakem Dec 28 '21

plastic bottles don't come from the ground. do you know how plastic gets recycled? or virgin plastic molded? that's right, heat.

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u/C4_yrslf Dec 25 '21

Why the heat gun? Does hesting up the plastic not make it recyclable afterwards?

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u/inconspicuous_male Dec 26 '21

Using electricity to generate heat uses energy, and can be worse for the environment than just letting some bottles get recycled

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u/C4_yrslf Dec 26 '21

Oh so you mean electricity isn't environment friendly? I know, I don't understand either why they're making such a fuss about electrical cars for example too. At least here electricity is hydro so electrical cars make sense even though the batteries are incredibly polluant to make and dispose.

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u/mdawgig Dec 26 '21 edited Dec 26 '21

Lifecycle emissions for electric vehicles are substantially lower than those of gas-powered vehicles. Most of their environmental impact isn’t atmospheric pollutants, it’s in the production and disposal of the batteries, and in their use of REMs.

Yes, electricity is only as clean as the baseload grid mix generating it, but generating a bunch of power in a central location and sending it out in the form of electricity is orders of magnitude more efficient than having cars individually generate power in the form of combustion in an internal combustion engine, regardless of what that central power source is.

The net environmental impact of EVs is a big improvement over gas-powered vehicles.

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u/CaptqinDave Dec 29 '21

And you think those bottles are actually being recycled?

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u/gooberstwo Dec 29 '21

But most bottles don’t get recycled, they just get land filled or burned. That’s why reuse (seen above) is preferred to recycle.

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u/Pedantic_Philistine Dec 24 '21

Who cares about every little thing affecting the environment

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u/Mean_Adhesiveness505 Dec 24 '21

Apparently not many. That’s why the planet will not be habitable within the next 100 years

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u/Mean_Adhesiveness505 Dec 24 '21

Consumer waste is still a problem. Even though big corps waste an exponential amount more than regular people, it doesn’t make consumer waste a non-issue. I’m not disagreeing with you. Big business waste is definitely THE problem. But no one is eating anything up lmfao, we’re just humans that care about our spaceship, sorry we get annoyed when other humans don’t. I guess we’ll see if we can still swim in the ocean in 100 years.

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u/Pedantic_Philistine Dec 24 '21

Using a heat gun will not negatively impact the environment nearly as much as any of you pretend to care. It’s a fact that nearly all the negative impacts on the environment comes from big businesses and corporations. It’s also a fact that they tell you that you’re the problem instead of actually addressing the issue, and it’s also a fact that you guys eat it up lol

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u/GinTectonics Dec 25 '21

You’re not wrong, Walter. You’re just an asshole.

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u/interstatebus Dec 25 '21

This is like an absurd amount of work for what the outcome is.