This is a very long thread, with a lot of interesting talk about taxes and disincentives for single-use plastics, so I thought I'd hoist this to top level. Cana

This is a very long thread, with a lot of interesting talk about taxes and disincentives for single-use plastics, so I thought I'd hoist this to top level. Canada (as well as I assume many other places) has a deposit system for the fancy milks you might buy, wherein the retailer will often list the milk without the $1 included, because it's arguably analogous to borrowing a shopping cart (where you'd insert a coin and get it back when you're done). I was recently surprised to find a similar deposit on a single-use plastic bottle of water (1.5L, $2) of $0.25. I have no idea where I'd return the bottle to get that 25 cents back, but it was enough to get my attention, and though I use a re-usable coffee canister as much as feasible, I'll probably try and find a solution for large quantities of water as well (beyond my 20oz canteen). I definitely find this less convenient during the pandemic, because coffee shops don't fill directly into personal mugs anymore, and there aren't that many public bottle filling stations around. In a counter intuitive move, many public water fountains have even been shut off for Covid.