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Aluminium drawback? Why US still uses so many plastic bottles? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Thoughts? I am currently trying to avoid using plastic packed drinks as much as possible due to it's limited and finite recycle count

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 months ago (2 children)

A standalone plastic bottle is 20-40g of PET.

The lining of a soda can is about 1g of BPA.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but it is a lining. The entire interior surface is plastic, so is the risk of chemical leeching any different?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, you don't get any aluminum leeched into your drink.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The BPA coating is what I'm referring to. A lot of people are not fond of plastic bottles because they want to avoid BPA leeching jntk their drink. Switching to a can lined with BPA doesn't seem to help the issue at all.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, not much that can be done other than voicing concerns to your representatives. Thankfully, here in EU a resolution has been passed earlier this year banning BPA and other bisphenols. Hopefully it gets put into action soon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I hope to emigrate to the EU one day. To be blunt, we do not have our shit together over here...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Honestly, it's not much better here. But better.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

At least the aluminium shields it from sunlight. Maybe that mean less leeching?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Isn’t “BPA-free” a selling point for food-safe plastic because BPA is bad?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Yes, but the problem is they replaced it with BPS which is basically the same, but less tested.