Asklemmy

50886 readers

523 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 6 years ago

MODERATORS

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

submitted 1 year ago by LovelyA72@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

5 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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

top 5 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] nigh7y@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Aren't aluminum cans still plastic bottles on the inside?

[–] derpgon@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They have plastic coating, yes, but way less plastic and way easier to just burn it off in the crucible.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

Plastic burns easily in all types of fires.

[–] butsbutts@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you are a good person

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

You do realize that aluminum bottles are plastic bottles yes ? Plastic bottle with a thin aluminium insert to block sunlight from degrading the contents.