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Aluminium drawback? Why US still uses so many plastic bottles? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

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[–] RGB3x3 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I buy distilled water for my daughter's baby formula bottles. They all come in plastic jugs and I really wish I could just bring a glass jar somewhere to get it refilled. Because I just know all that plastic is leeching into the water.

It's a shame that glass jars are so uncommon around here. The plastic is so wasteful.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

The question of chemicals leeching from plastic into food has been studied and largely solved.

[+] Aux -6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Glass bottles have bigger impact on the environment.

[–] Mitchie151 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Unless they're reused over and over again.

[–] Aux 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They're not re-used over and over again. Every drink manufacturer has its own bottle shape, thus most bottles just go into a smelter. And smelting glass is a fucking nightmare from the environment's perspective.

[–] RGB3x3 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Then this is a problem with regulation. Bottle manufacturers should be forced to use only a couple regulated shapes.

But in the case I'm talking about, I'd be reusing the glass bottle myself, taking the empty one somewhere to refill. Which is way more sustainable than the basically single-use plastic jugs I have to use now.

[–] Aux 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Plastic is not a signle use. You can it re-use it the same way. It lasts forever, remember?

[–] RGB3x3 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's about micro plastics leeching into the water. Reusing plastic means more and more of the micro plastics end up in the water.

And besides, there's no infrastructure for me to get distilled water outside of buying a new plastic jug.

Is this really that difficult to understand?

[–] Aux 1 points 8 months ago

Micro plastics don't do crap. CO2 emissions on the other hand...