yes: I'm not an expert, but the following for me are pretty obvious
1. a glass bottle left in the field pollute much less than a plastic one
2. recycling a glass bottle has less environmental impact vs plastic
But most of all I'm mad at the very well planned green-washing that made us think that somebody do recycle plastics in significant figures.
I do know that in Italy, when a town burn plastic to produce energy, those figures end up in statistics as "recycled plastic": yes, they do recycle, no doubt, from plastic to electricity, but almost nobody are aware that recycling means burning the plastic just outside town.
Take the beautiful Aegean see in Greece: many Islands have their "little secret", a hidden bay far away from tourist eyes, and just by the sea, where they have a landfill where they just burn everything: once every 3/4 days they add some petrol and just start the fire. Ask tourists, which carefully separate garbage with no need of robots, the following:
"why do you choose plastic and not glass?"
and they all answer:
"because plastic is recycled, isn't?"
In a Greek bay landfill I would prefer tons of glass bottles vs left over of plastic bottles.
1. a glass bottle left in the field pollute much less than a plastic one
2. recycling a glass bottle has less environmental impact vs plastic
But most of all I'm mad at the very well planned green-washing that made us think that somebody do recycle plastics in significant figures.
I do know that in Italy, when a town burn plastic to produce energy, those figures end up in statistics as "recycled plastic": yes, they do recycle, no doubt, from plastic to electricity, but almost nobody are aware that recycling means burning the plastic just outside town.
Take the beautiful Aegean see in Greece: many Islands have their "little secret", a hidden bay far away from tourist eyes, and just by the sea, where they have a landfill where they just burn everything: once every 3/4 days they add some petrol and just start the fire. Ask tourists, which carefully separate garbage with no need of robots, the following:
"why do you choose plastic and not glass?"
and they all answer:
"because plastic is recycled, isn't?"
In a Greek bay landfill I would prefer tons of glass bottles vs left over of plastic bottles.