Mar 17 2024 14 mins 4
We are back! Thank you for your patience while we sorted out a bit of our workload, but your reward is that this week we are doing one of my favourite episodes.
It has taken a lot of research and a lot of reading that made me really quite f*cking angry about the way we do things.
Today we are talking about what is actually good for the environment, Plastic glass or aluminium and one of them is the absolute worst and it’s not what you think. And the answer to what we can do may also not be what you think.
I also used a tool called Life Cycle Analysis to put this episode together and you’ll find links to it further down in the show notes.
In this episode I share:
- Which form of bottle is actually the worse
- What the best option is if you only consider disposal
- The three reasons we cannot recycle our way out of the crisis
- The reason none of the current options are a good choice
- Why I started Incrediballs
Key Quotes
“Reduce reuse and then recycle. Reduce is the key, reuse is more important and recycling is the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff."
“None of them are the good choice. There is the better choice and the worst choice but none of them are good because they are all inherently single use.”
“We cannot recycle our way out of this crisis.”
More Information
Sources: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348005008_Life_Cycle_Assessment_of_Beverage_Packaging
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11367-020-01804-x
https://www.aluminum.org/Recycling
https://international-aluminium.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/wa_factsheet_final.pdf
https://environment.govt.nz/what-government-is-doing/areas-of-work/waste/container-return-scheme/
https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-pollution.
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