We prefer glass.

@marguicha (230334)
Chile
February 23, 2019 2:59pm CST
I just found out that in my country there´s a place where you can change your plastic bottles for glass bottles you can recycle. I am so glad with the idea. I am shocked at the amount of plastic that is polluting the oceans. Some time ago I discovered that there was a 'continent' made from plastic the size of Australia. What do you do to stop littering? Please share. This is worse than the global heating.
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@pjmurphy (2498)
• United States
23 Feb 19
We try to recycle and reuse but I think we can do better. I agree with you that it is a big problem.
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
23 Feb 19
I hope we can do better. In this last century we have created more garbage than in many
@jstory07 (148701)
• Roseburg, Oregon
23 Feb 19
I recycle my bottles and cans. Glass and aluminum. I tell others if you are going to threw bottles and cans away. Put them in a bag and leave them in my yard. I will rinse them out and recycle them.
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
24 Feb 19
I recycle a lot. But plastic is not very recyclable by us.
@shaggin (74988)
• United States
25 Feb 19
@marguicha some places don’t allow glass bottles to be recycled as they get broken and workers get injured. Here thankfully glass can be recycled.
@Torunn (8606)
• Norway
23 Feb 19
I'm always taking all plastic bottles and metall cans with a deposit back to the shop, and recycle all the other plastic, glass and metall. There's no recycling for food waste here, but I try not to waste food and check my fridge every now and then so I know what food I have. I have started checking if there's any organized cleaning efforts going on in town, it's easier to do things like that together. You can get free plastic bags to collect plastic in and deliver them to the recycling plants. Some companies will actually pay 200 NOK for doing it, if you post a picture of it on the Norwegian equivalent of ebay.
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@shaggin (74988)
• United States
24 Feb 19
@Torunn that is awesome! I took part in a road side cleanup two years ago. I hope to help out again with them in the future.
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
24 Feb 19
We don´t have that. But I congratulate you.
@Torunn (8606)
• Norway
24 Feb 19
@shaggin It is something like that I'll be looking for. I might check with the university and the student unions, they do litter a lot so they should do some cleaning too :-)
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@DianneN (254949)
• United States
23 Feb 19
We recycle and buy environmentally friendly and sustainable products. I read about plastic islands and it's a huge problem worldwide.
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
23 Feb 19
Those islans are really horror places. Only they are real.
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
24 Feb 19
@DianneN scary.
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@DianneN (254949)
• United States
23 Feb 19
@marguicha Yes, they are. I've seen them online. Just awful!!!
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@JudyEv (381751)
• Rockingham, Australia
24 Feb 19
We use as little plastic as possible but it's difficult to avoid it sometimes.
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
24 Feb 19
True. We have to unlearn to use them.
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@YrNemo (20254)
23 Feb 19
we wash and recycle most of our stuff here.
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
24 Feb 19
But there are many food that only come in plastics.
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
24 Feb 19
@YrNemo Cheese could perfectly be given in paper
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@YrNemo (20254)
24 Feb 19
@marguicha you are right. Cheese for example (from my local supermarkets)...
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@shaggin (74988)
• United States
24 Feb 19
I try to reduce as much as possible. Then I recycle what I can and reuse things.
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@shaggin (74988)
• United States
25 Feb 19
@marguicha that’s great! A friend of mine reuses so many glass jars. I mostly reuse the plastic ones since they can’t be recycled here like peanut butter jars etc.
@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
25 Feb 19
I use most of the glass jars to make my apricot jam.
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@Hate2Iron (15724)
• Canada
23 Feb 19
Companies have to be urged to stop using plastic bottles... maybe urged isn't the right word! It should be forbidden. I'm not sure how long we actually have before we destroy the planet. We all have grandchildren to consider.
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
24 Feb 19
I wholly agree. I would be willing to pay a little more for glass.
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@Hate2Iron (15724)
• Canada
24 Feb 19
@marguicha So would I!!!
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@LadyDuck (502148)
• Italy
24 Feb 19
We recycle all plastic and glass bottles here. We cannot throw them in the garbage, we must bring into special containers.
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
25 Feb 19
Here that is just beginning and it is not well organized.
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@LadyDuck (502148)
• Italy
25 Feb 19
@marguicha Here they already had the recycling program when we bought the house in 1999. Four years ago they decided to get more serious. We receive a fixed numbers of garbage bags according to the number of people living in the house. If we want more we have to pay 5$ per bag, because it means we do not recycle correctly.
@Courtlynn (67089)
• United States
23 Feb 19
we turn in our cans and bottles, for money.
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
24 Feb 19
Not here.
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
23 Feb 19
I recycle containers big time.
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
24 Feb 19
Mee too.
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@aureliah (24687)
• Kenya
25 Feb 19
That is a great idea. Sometimes I end up with so many plastic bottles because of buying sodas and water.
@CarolDM (203396)
• Nashville, Tennessee
23 Feb 19
We all need to do our part in this world wide problem.
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
23 Feb 19
It is urgent.
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• Santiago, Chile
23 Feb 19
Oh God the environment pollution is a huge problem that has to be faced up globally. I think not most people are aware of the huge damage plastic does to our world and oceans. Personally I always make sure not to buy too many liquids which package is made of plastic. I even use a plastic bottle of water that I have since a year ago.
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
24 Feb 19
I now using a glass bottle that I fill with tap water every day.
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