• Inucune@lemmy.world
    29·
    2か月前

    How about we start shipping recyclables back to the company that made them to recycle them?

    • BeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.world
      1·
      2か月前

      you know those little dots on the bottom of glass bottles? they shave one off every time it’s recycled. whether it goes back to the original manufacturer or not, idk. but you can occasionally get recycled bottles with your drink.

      • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
        3·
        2か月前

        they shave one off every time it’s recycled

        I suppose in this case, you would call it “reused”?
        They are probably cleaned with boiling water and some chemicals before being refilled.

        By “recycling”, I would normally think of melting and reforming.

        • BeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.world
          3·
          2か月前

          i mean if we’re splitting hairs, yeah. here reuse is typically talked about as the individual reusing, recycling as industry reusing/processing.

          • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
            1·
            2か月前

            Yeah, that’s another way it makes sense.
            No way either word is going to match this case with both definitions.