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On average, disposable plastic bottles shed microplastics much more prolifically than plastic water piping.

You have to remember that plastic containers aren't washed before they are filled with product. That's often where much of the micro/nano plastics come from.

I started putting aluminum foil, folded a few times to the size of a typical card, in my wallet, in each flap... a year or two after credit and debit cards started getting RFID chips (the things that let you tap as oppose to swipe), and thus could be scanned and cloned by a guy walking around with a device in their backpack... and one of my cards was cloned this way.

Everyone called me paranoid.

Faraday cages block radio signals... RFID works via radio signals.

Then, that form of cloning cards became more popular, and now, most wallets just feature a bit of metallic weave or layer in them somewhere to prevent that, or the ekster and ridge wallets that just are metal.

I was curious about this since a plastic bottle that held water for years doesn't show any wear on the inside and found out it's not the bottle that's the likely source but the filters they use prior to bottling, which have a plastic mesh system. The bottle can stills leech BPA and is best avoided.

glass bottled soda > canned soda > plastic contained soda or fountain drinks

... maybe we will end up with a bottlecap psuedo currency after all.

Especially things with carbonic or citric acid are probably even worse here

Edit: and we need to keep in mind, the aluminium cans also have a plastic liner inside. So those probably aren't better either...

Shit thing, that glass is so heavy to move around.
And pretty much everything is stored in large plastic containers during production, until it's filled into whatever.

Not sure how we can actually get around this.
The best thing we can do, is probably just reducing the plastic intake, by avoiding plastic bottles, as they are much more prone to decay due to UV light and long term storage.

But well, I guess, we're fucked here as well

If you can find a way to do an at home soda making process that doesn't involve the soda flavor packets being ... in plastic... than that would be ideal, I think.

Similarly, time to go back to beans + grinder or grounds that come in a non plastic package for coffee... stop using keurigs and pods... thats all plastic.

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I just stopped drinking soda regularly and switched over to 99% water a long time ago.

I treat soda as a dessert, like ice cream or a brownie, only have a few a week, or month.

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Soda and bottled water also have absurdly high margins, absurdly high costs to buy per what it cost the company to make.

A fountain soda at a fast food place in America has about a 1125% markup / margin.

If you paid 2 dollars for the soda, the actual soda cost 0.18 cents.

Not 18 cents.

0.18 cents.

A fifth of a penny.

Bottled water is around 900% to 1000% markup / profit margin.

They are bad.

Get a ceramic mug, or canteen/water bottle with an aluminum or stainless steel internal lining, drink your tap water out of that, filter it if your tap quality sucks.

Most plastic melts at between 200°C and 320°C. So... Uh. Let's fire up those ovens, baby.

I suggest we start with Dupont and 3M executives to field test the removal process - since they're cool with testing their products on us.

Additional suggestions encouraged. Coke-Amatil? Tyre manufacturers?

Attach your brain to a 3D printer. Make some use of all that plastic and print your thoughts. /j

I don't think that's an option, given that they keep increasing

Is this before or after injecting the bleach?

Hmmm....you might be on to something!

Well, I'm sure that's actually quite true!

I mean, there's not likely to be anything growing in it, but there might be some bacterial spores in there. Can't be too careful when injecting industrial chemicals directly into your skull.