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Coca-Cola is on pace to dump 1.3 billion pounds of plastic into our oceans each year (www.earth.com)

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[–] parpol 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Can and glass jar drinks taste so much better to begin with. I never got why PET became the goto bottle... cans recycle so well too...

It feels like if we can have a 2x price increase on everything and somehow manage, we could have banned PET and had a 1.05x price increase and not even notice it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

plastic is cheap, plastic is light, plastic is durable. it's not that strange that PET bottles became the standard