The researchers found an average of around 100 microplastic particles per liter in glass bottles of soft drinks, lemonade, iced tea and beer. That was five to 50 times higher than the rate detected in plastic bottles or metal cans.
“We expected the opposite result,” Ph.D. student Iseline Chaib, who conducted the research, told AFP.
“We then noticed that in the glass, the particles emerging from the samples were the same shape, color and polymer composition—so therefore the same plastic—as the paint on the outside of the caps that seal the glass bottles,” she said.
The paint on the caps also had “tiny scratches, invisible to the naked eye, probably due to friction between the caps when there were stored,” the agency said in a statement.
This could then “release particles onto the surface of the caps,” it added.
Step 1: Invent plastic bottles
Step 2: Pocket the cash
Step 3: Things got bad? Outsource the clean-up to the end user in the form of recycling
Step 4: Increase prices to account for recycling
Step 5: Laugh as the idiots actually recycle your shit
Step 6: Throw the whole shebang in the ocean or in landfills
Step 7: Pocket some more cash
Step 8: Pat yourself on your shoulder. You’ve done some capitalism.
You forgot the step where they invent a logo that looks almost the same as the recyclable logo and stick it on all plastics but it doesnt mean its recyclable but instead just says what kind of plastic it is.