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This was a popular conspiracy theory in the 90's. Another one for the "yup that conspiracy actually happened" book. Ive been called a monster many times for try
by sthnblllII 6y ago
This was a popular conspiracy theory in the 90's. Another one for the "yup that conspiracy actually happened" book. Ive been called a monster many times for trying to explain this, usually by liberal women. They just hear a bunch of numbers and then their heads explode once they realize I was saying to just put the bottle in the normal trash instead of the special one for virtue signaling.
- hinkley 6y agoIt drove me nuts when BPA hit the radar and I switched to mostly glass while everyone around me just... bought different plastic. If this one was 'safe' until it wasn't, why do you think a newer kind of plastic is going to be safe? Plus now you have bought twice as many containers.
- systematical 6y agoYup glass and metal only. Water tastes terrible out of anything else. Beer too.
- na85 6y agoYour metal beer cans have a plastic liner in them. Every single one.
- Polylactic_acid 6y agoSaw a video of someone dissolving the aluminium and it was left with a soft drink in a plastic bag.
- chrisbolt 6y agohttps://youtu.be/7r7_SFdSdE4 https://youtu.be/7r7_SFdSdE4
- KozmoNau7 6y agoCorrect, however it is significantly less plastic that would be used in a plastic bottle, since it doesn't have to hold any pressure by itself. The aluminum is one of the most recyclable materials we have.
- hinkley 6y agoKlean Kanteen had some drama because they weren't clear on what their liners were made of before they started telling people their products were safe. Narrator: they weren't They had to do a big mea culpa and then scramble to change their product line later in the game than they could have. And then there was an organic food company (Muir) that dragged their feet on switching the liners for their canned tomatoes and sauces (you may recall that acids make the leaching worse) and pissed a lot of people right off.
- tomp 6y agoSilicon as well. If it’s safe enough to have in your body, it’s safe enough to drink from. Also it’s extremely heat resistant (I use it for sous-vide cooking).
- iguy 6y agoSilicone, BTW. (As opposed to the stuff Intel etches.)
- gotoeleven 6y agoThe best explanation for this is that left wing fads have replaced religion for many people. Its no use explaining with facts that they're wrong, all this does is identify you as an -ist or a -phobe to be shunned. And they've got an original sin now, too -- racism -- which conveniently only applies to white people.
- medium_burrito 6y agoOne word: Transubstantiation. I was dragged to a recycling plant with a bunch of curious engineers from Google a long time ago. The takeaway was that is was a giant scam- we can't recycle glass, paper is iffy, msot of the stuff is meh, but aluminum is ok. Trash trucks literally pulled up to the plant and removed the "unrecycleable" waste. We were all so pissed we went into software, when one could literally just put trash into a different container with a green/blue color, and thus purify and bless it, and then send it to a dump. The part we missed was the ships just taking all this trash to China and Bangladesh.
- sthnblllII 6y agoIts like seeing how sausage is made, or learning how your favorite politician is a crook. You still want to believe but know too much.
- Blackthorn 6y agoWait, how is the glass unrecyclable? Glass should be one of the most recyclable bits, along with metals. Just because plastic is a scam doesn't necessarily mean everything else recycled is. Scrap metal is big business. Old rubber tires get shredded and vulcanized into new products.
- maxerickson 6y agoIt's not un-recyclable, it's hard to move around and doesn't save a lot of energy compared to new raw materials.
- anticensor 6y agoCorrect, glass needs hardened containers and slower acceleration.
- TylerE 6y agoGlass is totally recyclable, the problem is you can’t get clear glass out of anything that has color in it, which a lot of stuff does. It’s also not really saving any energy or valuable resources, and glass is heavy and fragile.
- triceratops 6y agoThe funny thing is, if everyone "virtue signaled" like the "liberal women" do by cleaning plastic and putting it in the right bin, recycling might be somewhat less money-losing by virtue of being better-sorted. But yeah, fuck 'em for "virtue signaling" while they sip their lattes and go to yoga, right? It's better to see the lie and do what they don't want you to do. /s I get it, plastic can't be recycled profitably and we should be using way less. But one of the reasons its so terrible to recycle is because of how poorly it's sorted.
- konjin 6y agoDid you even read the article? It isn't profitable and it will never be. The only reason why it could go on for as long as it did is because China was subsidizing us with slave labor.
- triceratops 6y agoI'm not sure you read my comment. I never said "profitable". I said "somewhat less money-losing". I also said "plastic can't be recycled profitably".
- lmm 6y agoPutting effort into sorting better is throwing good money after bad. Even if you sort perfectly it's still virtue signalling; far better to spend that time on something productive and donate the earnings to something effective.
- triceratops 6y ago> Putting effort into sorting better is throwing good money after bad How much time or money does it cost to not put plastic bottles in the paper bin? How much are you going to earn in that time to donate?
- lmm 6y agoProbably a couple of seconds. Maybe 5 cents for a typical HN reader. Which is significantly more than recycling that bottle is worth (I'm pretty sure GGP was talking about putting the bottle in the landfill bin rather than the paper bin).
- symplee 6y agoThis may be a dumb question, but is there really a "yup that conspiracy actually happened" book? Not literally a book with that title, but is there some resource that has a list of these?
- sthnblllII 6y agohttps://www.mintpressnews.com/shocking-origins-jeffrey-epstein-blackmail-roy-cohn/260621/ https://www.mintpressnews.com/shocking-origins-jeffrey-epste... Whitney Webb is arguably the premier investigative journalists of our age. Any publication that doesn't source her work is simply not credible. https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/category/whitney-webb/ https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/category/whitney-web...