[colliric]

Yep.

And it's even worse because China no longer wants to buy Australia's rubbish like they did in the early 90s.

How Australia Governments use to recycle things.... Sell the shitty used plastic to developing China and pretend as if we care about the environment.

In the 80s they use to pay you to return the bottles and cans in an easier to sort out later manner at the local milkbar, supermarket or collection depot. Now they just tell you to throw it all in the same bin and magically it will get "sorted out later".

And Coca-Cola really should have gone back to the easier to wash and reuse Glass Bottles decades ago with a bottle return scheme restored. Regardless of their initial higher use of non-renewable metals and sand.

[Patrickov]

Just consume less liquid in general (drink more tap water, say).