• jeffw@lemmy.worldOPM
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      6 months ago

      You should use a reusable water bottle for that purpose though. Don’t reuse single-use plastic like that

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        6 months ago

        Normally one puts used 2-liter pop bottles into recycling.

        Occasionally I reuse one a few times.

        Why would I buy a water bottle when I essentially have one—at times several—already?

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            6 months ago

            Maybe, but such would be insufficient, IMO.

            We must cease using all plastic:

            plastic shopping bags, plastic textile bags, nylon, polyester, food wrap, margarine tubs, most electronics, automobiles, electric bikes, pedal bikes, definitely tires, plastic sandwich bags, tea bags, pens, chewing gum, filters, plastic pill bottles, plastic syringes, plastic in diapers, plastic in bandages, plastic in tampons, use only glass bottles for shampoos and conditioners, non-plastic combs and brushes, (most) imitation leather, plastic election signs, plastic gardening pots and trays, plastic garden hoses, plastic piping, plastic fuel containers, plastic casings for batteries, plastic electric chords, plastic in masks for the next pandemic, etc.

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              6 months ago

              Nah you’re right, you should just keep using the same old sunlight-degraded Fuji bottle you’ve been using. Who cares if you’re drinking polyethylene, hell boil some coffee in that bad boy. Fuck minimizing exposure, it’s nothing to me champ, drink up.

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                6 months ago

                Those go into recycling, which, IIUC, mostly go into the landfill because Toronto doesn’t rigourously enforce preparing and sorting recyclables enough.

                For a while I used a 1.5 liter vodka bottle (mostly as a lark) but it got broken.

                Metal containers also aren’t transparent—I like to see what I’m drinking.

                If re-use of plastic isn’t the answer, then recycling is definitely not the answer.

                At least 8 billion humans must stop using plastic.

                Perhaps a more realistic solution would be to sterilize humanity now: that way, by 2099, the environment will start to significantly improve.

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          6 months ago

          Yes. Microplastics leech into your water when you reuse a single-use plastic bottle.

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            Microplastics are in the air we breathe and the water you’re filling your re-usable bottle with likely comes to the tap via plastic pipes.

            Moralizing people for re-using single-use plastic bottles is just virtue signaling. It’s basically impossible to avoid microplastics and if one cares about their health there are things you can do that have orders of magnitude greater impact on it such as staying lean and excercising.

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              1. Avoidance isn’t my goal. Reduction is. Might be the same for the other commentor

              2. Drink out of what you want, but I like being able to scrub my reusable bottle.

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              6 months ago

              Dogs piss on dirt, so if you walk on the grass, you may as well just be drinking dog piss. Don’t demonize people for that.

              Thanks, dope ass logic. Let’s just ingest more plastic!!!