Correct - but is rarely used in that manner anymore
There is also a version of Tidyman to encourage recycling of glass.
More recycling symbols below. Sorry if duplicated.
https://www.recyclenow.com/recycling-knowledge/packaging-symbols-explained
I am sure the likes of Coca-Cola could do better if they wanted to and if they cared to. Ok there a big business and plastic bottles are popular with customers but I think they should make a stand and stop them or come up with a way to recycle there plastic waste.
They can only do that directly if they do a similar scheme to Pepsico with their Frito bags but that was a localised initiative. As it ceases to be their waste once it’s sold on - you get back to relying on the consumer being diligent in their own recycling efforts - which we already know they are not.
Perhaps Coke consumers would prefer their PET bottles less if they were incentivised to buy cans instead by means of a price hike on the plastic alternatives. Doing that though just shifts one environmental problem onto another. Even though currently 40% of all aluminium used in cans is recycled, the other 60% (that’s 105,000 metric tonnes – a day) of the needed aluminium comes predominantly from bauxite mining which is as bad – if not worse – than putting plastic in landfills.
The whole thing is thoroughly depressing.
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Hi @Tim_Huel
I just received my order of RTD bottles and like others have been quite vocal on, they are the euro spec bottles. I haven’t tried the taste yet but noticed they are not PET but instead high density polyethylene. There’s nothing particularly wrong with that as PEHD is reusable and recyclable, but wondered why you’d gone that route instead of PET which is more common for this size of bottle – its immediately apparent the PEHD bottles are noticeably thinner wall construction than the UK/US bottles and some of the bottles have been scuffed & dented presumably during transit which I never noticed on the PET ones.
Is this down to availability of raw materials/recycling? Also, there’s no food grade marking on the bottle which is a slight concern even though PEHD is used in food packaging such as milk jugs.
Hey Phil! Sharp as a tack you are!
Yes the bottles made by our European RTD facility are made from HDPE/rHDPE, the difference is mainly just to do with what they can provide us with. The UK and US bottles use PET/rPET because that’s what their line is designed for. Both are 100% recyclable and made from 25% recycled materials.