Aluminium drawback? Why US still uses so many plastic bottles?
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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Thoughts? I am currently trying to avoid using plastic packed drinks as much as possible due to it's limited and finite recycle count
Aren't aluminum cans still plastic bottles on the inside?
A standalone plastic bottle is 20-40g of PET.
The lining of a soda can is about 1g of BPA.
Yeah, but it is a lining. The entire interior surface is plastic, so is the risk of chemical leeching any different?
Yeah, you don't get any aluminum leeched into your drink.
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.
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.
I hope to emigrate to the EU one day. To be blunt, we do not have our shit together over here...
Honestly, it's not much better here. But better.
At least the aluminium shields it from sunlight. Maybe that mean less leeching?
Isn’t “BPA-free” a selling point for food-safe plastic because BPA is bad?
Yes, but the problem is they replaced it with BPS which is basically the same, but less tested.
They have plastic coating, yes, but way less plastic and way easier to just burn it off in the crucible.
Plastic burns easily in all types of fires.
Oh yeah let me just whip out my interdimensional crucible and burn off the plastic between the liquid and the metal so I can drink my beverage in peace.
That's like saying cars and trucks are made of paint because they have a layer of it on the outside.
Can liners are both an extremely small portion of the overall container as well as being absolutely essential for most canned beverages.
Additionally, many/most manufacturers have or are moving away from liner materials that contain BPA.