I’m looking at an empty bottle of Valentina hot sauce. It has a flip top cap but is not twist off and seems to be press fitted on in some way - ideally there would be a way to easily remove it and re-purpose the container or at least clean it out for recycling.
With some recent legislation in some countries to standardize USB-C it got me wondering if there are pushes elsewhere or if maybe it’s just my country just hasn’t caught up on things.
Well, you’re doing the right thing with re-using containers yourself. It was always Reduce, Re-use, Recycle, with Recycle being dead last and least important of the three. Recycling isn’t inherently bad, but corporations leaned on it for decades as a way to wipe away their own responsibilities and hand them over to consumers and the recycling industry. It’s mostly just been abused, despite being the least important.