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>“It’s more urgent now than ever before to make plastic water bottles a thing of the past.” Great way to end good research with retarded political statements.
by John_KZ 9y ago
>“It’s more urgent now than ever before to make plastic water bottles a thing of the past.”
Great way to end good research with retarded political statements. What exactly will replace plastic bottles?
- aaronbrethorst 9y agoStainless steel and glass come to mind off the top of my head. Edit: Also, regarding your choice of words: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ableism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ableism
- John_KZ 9y agoDo you seriously propose that stores should sell stainless steel bottles of water?
- aaronbrethorst 9y agoYou don't own a stainless steel water bottle? That seems wasteful.
- dingo_bat 9y agoYou didn't answer the question: how do you propose stores sell bottled water if not in plastic bottles?
- aaronbrethorst 9y agopistoriousp did a perfectly good job of answering this five minutes ago, but if you want a very specific answer that includes a product currently for sale, I'd point you to this: https://boxedwaterisbetter.com/pages/why-boxed-is-better https://boxedwaterisbetter.com/pages/why-boxed-is-better
- John_KZ 9y agopistoriousp didn't really answer. Aluminum cans don't scale well to over 500ml (have you seen a 1.5lt bottle made of aluminum?), and even at 500ml they require pressurization to hold. Tetrapac is still plastic inside, but a lot more expensive, with lower lifespan and robustness and with much higher carbon footprint. It's probably a bit less vulnerable to plasticizer leaching but that's the only thing it can offer. As for glass, I'm sorry, but this is the stupidest thing I've heard all week. You obviously don't understand anything about this issue if you propose to use glass for bottled water.
- pistoriusp 9y agoGlass is widely used and recycled in Europe.
- petre 9y agoAluminium bottles with a threaded lid?
- Symbiote 9y agoBottled water should not be anything more than a niche product. Returnable bottles would work, or "bring your own bottle" to refill. These four products are in returnable bottles: http://akddistribution.dk/produkt-kategori/danskvand/danskvand-glas/ http://akddistribution.dk/produkt-kategori/danskvand/danskva...
- pistoriusp 9y agoAluminum can, TetraPak, and glass.
- taneq 9y agoMaybe we could build some kind of system of pipes which would convey potable water from a central treatment facility out to homes and offices?
- vkou 9y agoBut where exactly is the end-game profit in that? I'm not seeing how this idea could grow to be the next Uber. Maybe if you had an app with a social or sharing economy component?
- clay_the_ripper 9y agoAnything that is not plastic. Plastic bottles should be banned. You can deliver water in aluminum, glass, cardboard, paper...plastic is just the cheapest and easiest thing to do and the massive externalities of the widespread use of plastic are harming us, the oceans and the environment at large. As a side note, I often wonder why people defend the immoral actions of corporations. Corporations will defer the cost of absolutely anything when they are legally able to. “Oh we can make more money at the cost of the environment? Excellent, let’s do that”. Until someone comes along and says actually no, you can’t do that. And then the corporation is forced to make very slightly fewer billions upon billions of dollars. Also, don’t use the word retarded.