Thoughts? I am currently trying to avoid using plastic packed drinks as much as possible due to it’s limited and finite recycle count

  • Death_Equity@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    We have a water company here that sells water in cans called Liquid Death, I don’t know if they are international or not.

    We also have beer companies that use aluminum bottles over cans, might just be Bud Light and Coors but I dont drink cheap pilsners.

    We don’t recycle enough and don’t have the capacity for processing if we did recycle enough. There is no real financial incentive for companies to spend more on aluminum bottles vs cans or plastic. Aluminum bottles have a plastic liner because drinking out of raw aluminum tastes bad and might contribute to Alzheimer’s(might not be true).

    I want us to go back to glass bottles but we stopped using them so much because we are terrible people and leave broken glass everywhere and plastic is better for shareholders. Seriously, we we were using glass the amount of broken glass shards in parks, streets, sidewalks, parking lots was a problem when I was a kid.

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      6 months ago

      We don’t recycle enough

      Maybe if recycling wasn’t a massive joke it might be useful and people might embrace it.

      The reality is no matter how much effort you put into recycling it’s going to a landfill or incinerator.

      “Recycling” outside of glass bottles is essentially non existent.

      The answer is to stop producing plastic.