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I always felt focusing the hate against bottled water was bizarre. Bottled soda is worse for you, and likely hurts the environment much more (since you need the
by bnralt 3y ago
I always felt focusing the hate against bottled water was bizarre. Bottled soda is worse for you, and likely hurts the environment much more (since you need the water and the extra ingredients). But people usually single out water; schools will ban bottled water, but not bottled soda. It’s bizarre.
- welpo 3y agoPresumably that's because you can get water through other means, whereas the same can't be said about soda.
- densh 3y agoIf we standardized soda to be delivered and sold as high concentration syrup only to be mixed with water right before use, it would dramatically cut amount of plastic wasted per ml of final mixed product.
- upon_drumhead 3y agoThis is how soda fountains work
- bnralt 3y agoSoda fountains exist, are common, and predate plastic bottles. Even if they didn’t, I’m not sure the logic here. Drinking soda from a bottle is just as much an unnecessary luxury as drinking water from a bottle, in both situations a person could just drink water from the tap instead. But we’re going to allow people to harm the environment with unnecessary packaging as long as they also include unnecessary sugar (which also harms the environment), but we won’t allow the unnecessary packaging if it doesn’t have the unnecessary sugar?