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(16,278 posts) Mon Sep 14, 2020, 12:43 PM Sep 2020

Pringles is testing a new can design ... recycling group dubbed it the 'number one recycling villain [View all]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/11/europe/pringles-tube-redesign-recycling-trnd/index.html

Pringles is testing a new can design after a recycling group dubbed it the 'number one recycling villain'

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN

Updated 5:14 PM ET, Fri September 11, 2020

(CNN) Pringles is testing out a new can -- at least in the United Kingdom.

For years, the iconic tall tube that houses the hyperbolic paraboloid-shaped potato chips has been at the top of a list of worst offenders when it comes to reusability. In 2017, a recycling trade group in the UK deemed the can the "number one recycling villain."

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Pringles is testing a new can design ... recycling group dubbed it the 'number one recycling villain [View all] sl8 Sep 2020 OP

I detest Pringles. Always have. catbyte Sep 2020 #1

Ditto - NEVER been on my grocery list! /eom Backseat Driver Sep 2020 #4

I love Pringles soothsayer Sep 2020 #2

My human container's microbiome is equally better off without any of Backseat Driver Sep 2020 #3

But what will DIYers do for all their projects that use Pringles cans? csziggy Sep 2020 #5