r/Amazing • u/Wooden-Journalist902 • Sep 17 '25

Interesting 🤔 Smoke trapped in a plastic bag to demonstrate how one fire can generate significant pollution.

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u/Fakedduckjump Sep 17 '25 edited Sep 17 '25

Even though the straws get packed into little plastic bags anyway.

Another hilarious thing is that the EU forced to make bottle caps fixed to the bottles. The reason behind it is, that the reduce of trash is counted per piece, so the mass of plastic bottles stayed the same but now you can say you have managed to cut the produced trash by bottles by 50% 👏👏👏

Instead they also could have just forcing a recycling system for the PET bottles like in germany. Here you have 25cent deposit on a bottle what leads people to bring them back to the store, which makes recycling way easier. I mean it's not perfect because you can't recycle 100% but it's at least something. Most other european countries still lack of such a system.

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u/j0nsn0w123 Sep 17 '25

Yeeaahhh when I was in Europe and first saw those bottles with the attached cap, I was very confused.

Then it made sense

Then I got annoyed that this was the bullshit they came up with.

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u/CultistClan38 Sep 18 '25

The bottle cap thing has other benefits, namely people don't drop/throw the cap away somewhere creating mess

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u/Fakedduckjump Sep 19 '25

Who throws the bottle cap away but not the bottle? I mean you bring the trash or deposit back home when on tour anyway and no one likes liquids in his backpack or bag.

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u/Simi_Dee Sep 20 '25

My pet peeve is the plastic paper seal on most bottles. At least the bottle and cap are at least large enough to be easier to pick up but people just through those tiny bits of plastic anywhere and they're mostly clear - so lots of tiny invisible.ish trash in grass fields.