I thought this was common knowledge.
Yeah, same. The only beverage containers that don’t contain plastic are glass, and even those the lids are either entirely plastic or plastic underneath to seal against the glass.
Let’s not forget that stainless steel drinking bottles exist, and some booze can be bought in ceramic bottles, so we do have safer alternatives for transporting/holding beverages. There are fewer options for carbonated drinks, of course.
Oh yeah, I forgot about stainless. I’ve only ever seen overpriced water in those though. Also, I’m not nearly fancy enough to know about ceramic liquor bottles but I think I’ve probably seen them once or twice in the store. Usually filled with sake or something right?
I bought an empty stainless steel bottle and fill it myself. :) It doesn’t take long for that to be cheaper than buying plastic bottled water.
This is crazy talk. You can do that? How do more people not know about this. That’s wild.
Liquor in ceramic is either very fancy, or the absolute least fancy (see: backwoods hooch).
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I don’t go for soft drinks often, but when I want one there’s a few brands of root beer that come in glass bottles that stores near me keep stocked.
Delirium Tremens (a Trappist beer) is packaged in ceramic.
Water reacts with aluminum over time. The inside of aluminum cans have always been lined. Same with aluminum water bottles and cans. If your aluminum water bottle is old and makes water taste funny, get a new one–the lining is probably shot.
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Hard hitting science experiments from before the year 2000!
Didn’t realize this was somewhat common knowledge. Depressing.
I only found out recently too.
Not to cast doubt on this, but how are aluminum cans recycled if they’re also plastic, which is somewhat notorious for not being recyclable? Honest question here, as I sip from an aluminum can.
Aluminum is recycled by melting it. Plastic burns off long before the aluminum melts. The residue might contaminate the aluminum but there are ways to remove that in the melt.
This is true, and when people talk about recycling aluminium cans they’re actually only talking about recycling the aluminium in those cans. The liner is not recycled.
However it’s a relatively small amount of plastic, and burning it while melting the metal does prevent it from ending up as plastic pollution. So aluminium cans are still better than non-recycled plastic packaging.
Huh, never knew that was a thing.
Same with most tin cans and whatnot.
That liner is BPA, an endocrine disruptor!
Generally no. The industry moved away from BPA in response to regulatory requirements.
Oooo, seems my knowledge is probably outdated. Thanks
Does it sound to anyone else like the video’s narrator used a pitch shifter on his voice? I wonder if he’s aware that a pitch transformation like that can be trivially reversed.
Ya but reversing the pitch takes effort that most people won’t go to.
