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minus-squareRichard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agoHere in Germany, all milk is still distributed in cardboard packages
minus-squaremaniii@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoyou mean cardboard packages with plastic linings ?
minus-squareWandererlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoThey are a fucking nightmare to recycle. You’ll be lucky if they get burnt and I mean that.
minus-squaremaniii@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoYep. You can get it composted quickly enough, you can get the plastic film out of the composting bin, but the microplastics are already seeped in and contaminated the biomass.
minus-squareSidyctism@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoYeah, but the inner lining of tetrapacks is plastic
Here in Germany, all milk is still distributed in cardboard packages
you mean cardboard packages with plastic linings ?
They are a fucking nightmare to recycle. You’ll be lucky if they get burnt and I mean that.
Yep. You can get it composted quickly enough, you can get the plastic film out of the composting bin, but the microplastics are already seeped in and contaminated the biomass.
Yeah, but the inner lining of tetrapacks is plastic