The basic system of refillable packaging isn’t complex, though companies do have to invest in the infrastructure to clean and repackage bottles and track them in reverse logistics.
“The main thing is not to pollute the oceans,” he says.
But Littlejohn says that refillable plastic bottles are still a viable option since they can also steeply reduce waste. Reusable plastic bottles still have challenges, especially if they’re made from fossil fuels rather than recycled plastic. Glass bottles are reused an average of 50 times in refill systems and then melted down and remade into new glass bottles.
Reusable glass bottles used to be the standard for soda packaging, and Oceana believes that they’re still the best option now. Even glass bottles, which use more energy than plastic to produce and transport, can have a lower carbon footprint than single-use plastic bottles when the glass bottles are repeatedly reused. While bottle deposit fees and other policy changes could help improve recycling rates, reusable bottles have a second advantage of using far less material, shrinking the environmental footprint of the packaging. “They’re actually assets on their books.” In Brazil, around 90% of Coke’s refillable bottles are taken back to the store the company wants the bottles back, so it does everything it can to get customers to comply. “In a reusable system like Coke has, they own bottles as inventory,” Littlejohn says. In the U.S., less than a third of plastic drink bottles get recycled. Recycling alone can’t solve the problem of plastic waste. “Reusables are a very leveraged way to reduce plastic pollution on the ocean,” says Matt Littlejohn, senior vice president of strategic initiatives at Oceana. If the percentage of refillable bottles grew just 10% in coastal countries, it would reduce ocean plastic pollution from PET bottles by 22%, the nonprofit found. Oceana, an environmental nonprofit, calculated that as many as 34 billion plastic bottles may reach the ocean each year. What would it take to return to a system that dramatically shrinks waste?Ĭoca-Cola’s “universal bottle” Even a small shift to refillable packaging can have an outsize impact. (Coca-Cola told Fast Company that it wants to allow flexibility in how local markets contribute to the global goal.) But before single-use plastic bottles became ubiquitous, refillable soda bottles were the norm. It hasn’t yet shared the details about where it plans to focus its efforts as of now, while refillable glass or plastic bottles are commonly used in some countries, they represent a tiny fraction of sales in a place like the U.S. You cannot sign in to a YouTube account using the program which means that you don't get personalized recommendations and cannot leave comments or interact with site content in other ways that require a user account your list of subscriptions is not available among other things.Coca-Cola recently announced that by the end of the decade, it will sell a quarter of its drinks in refillable packaging. The first thing you need to be aware of is that you juggle between two interfaces: the YouTube browser to search and select videos you want to watch, and the main SMPlayer interface for playback. There are some downsides to using SMPlayer for playback on YouTube that may or may not affect you. While Google still knows about your connections to the site, it cannot drop cookies in the web browser anymore which it may read whenever you visit sites with YouTube content.Īnother positive aspect of using the desktop program to watch YouTube videos is that you may watch the video without all the noise on the YouTube site. SMPlayer's way of watching YouTube videos is beneficial to your privacy. You can use all controls provided there, for instance to jump to a different position, enable fullscreen, change the volume or pause the video. Change the order from relevance to rating, title, views or date, and set quality, duration or video type filters next to that.Ī click on any video plays it in the main SMPlayer window automatically. The search interface lists filters at the top that you may use to change the order of videos. Select music, pets & animals, or gaming to limit the video listing to videos of the selected category. A click on categories in the video browser displays videos of that kind only.
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