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If anything the sheer amount of soda pop people drink is concerning. The plastic waste is due to the chosen diets of consumers. When I was a kid in late 70s ea
by dghughes 7y ago
If anything the sheer amount of soda pop people drink is concerning. The plastic waste is due to the chosen diets of consumers.
When I was a kid in late 70s early 80s my family of four shared one 750ml bottle of pop (and one bag of chips) on Friday night. Now a 600ml is a single serving of pop and many people drink pop with every meal.
- thatfrenchguy 7y ago> The plastic waste is due to the chosen diets of consumers. They’re not chosen though, they are the result of billions of dollars spent on advertising.
- catalogia 7y agoAnd yet many choose to abstain. The advertising is a problem and should be banned, but that's not reason to dehumanize consumers by denying their agency. People do have a choice and they should be reminded of that at every opportunity.
- WalterBright 7y agoI drank a lot of coke until about 10 years ago, when I stopped. The first year was difficult, after that I was not tempted anymore. The advertising has no effect on me. I have drunk a couple cans since, but didn't particularly care for the sticky, syrupy taste, and did not resume the habit.
- bhouston 7y agoEven water bottles should have a deposit.
- WalterBright 7y agoTap water is better for you anyway. Bottled water has the minerals filtered out, tap water does not, and you need the minerals.
- pinkfoot 7y agoAnd bottled water is stored in sun-lit areas for long periods of time - UV light destroys the hypochlorite (the bacteria-killing stuff). Tap-water is kept in nice dark pipes.
- WalterBright 7y ago> Tap-water is kept in nice dark pipes. It doesn't normally stay there long enough to get stagnant.
- pinkfoot 7y agoHow do you know?
- stjohnswarts 7y agoBecause people use water in their homes and for water to get from the water reservoir to your house requires it to be moving.
- WalterBright 7y agoRight. And water pipes are sized to the demand, which means water will be moving in them. The water pipe feeding your house isn't a foot in diameter.
- triceratops 7y agoDoesn't UV light also break down plastic? Does some of that stuff end up in the water? Bottled water already has more microplastics than tap water.[1] 1. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/15/microplastics-found-in-more-than-90-of-bottled-water-study-says https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/15/micropla...
- Scoundreller 7y agoBottled water usually uses ozone for disinfection (if spring water, not bottled tap water). Usually that leaves it pure enough to not require chlorine for ongoing disinfection.