The dispensaries are staffed with pharmacy technicians and a licensed pharmacist. I doubt they'd take the pre-roll tubes back. Drug stores don't take your empty prescription bottles back.

That’s fair. I just thought maybe there was a chance, they’re so wasteful. Same with prescriptions like you said.

It's kind of wild how wasteful the industry is. Single use vape pens infuriate me.

nice

That’s so true!

I hate to be that guy, but plastic recycling is a sham anyway. Just throw them in the trash.

Heck, everything's wasteful.

Yeah but when you take some cannabis oil, then you put it in a glass tube with a plastic tip, in printed box in a foam cushion....it's gets really out of hand

Find a guy with pre rolls. Solved!

Then just stop buying pre rolls. They are more expensive and worse weed. It’s all pre packaged bottom of the barrel. Pre rolls are the equivalent of ready made chocolate milk.

That’s why you don’t buy from GLeaf. Their shit is overpriced garbage.

Bring a glass jar to your weed grower friends house, top it up, and then there’s no garbage.

That's not a GLeaf thing, those things are everywhere.

Gleaf is def very expensive but unless one directly knows someone who grows and can trust they're getting what they're told they're getting, Gleaf is a safe, hassle free (once approved) way for them to get it.

Not if done properly, this is also unfortunately the attitude that does not make the situation any better. This is something we need to work on collectively.

My profession is actually in this field, and while I agree that often recycled matter is landfilled instead this is often due to people tainting the recycling stream with items that are not recyclable.

If you truly want to make sure your plastic products are recycled they need to be turned into a center directly.

https://cvwma.com/programs/drop-off-recycling/

Virginia actually recycles about 60% of solid waste.

Fair point. I don’t know enough about flower and how to use it to jump head first. It’s kind of daunting.

For real, and a whole ass battery that you can't detach the cart from!

While you're correct that cross contamination is a huge issue, it's the lack of proper plastic recycling infrastructure that keeps most localities in the US from recycling types 3-7. Once China stopped importing our trash, it meant that it didn't matter how you sent in your plastic recycling- it was getting sent to the landfill by the recycling center anyway.

Attempting to shame individuals into having to separate and haul their own recycling is also an extremely inefficient and ineffective way to go about improving recycling rates. If you want people to recycle en masse, make it free, convenient, and accessible. If poor people who don't have cars, work multiple jobs, and barely have time to take care of their kids can't do it, then your solution has elements of classism, racism, and sexism, that will render it moot.

Instead, demand that producers, not consumers, take responsibility for their own waste. Producer take back laws effectively place the time, energy, and financial externalities of dealing with waste back onto the producer, as opposed to the time strapped, survival focused, resource limited consumer who should be presented with better choices anyway.