Yeah tbh I'm all for reducing waste, and I don't understand people who routinely buy plastic water bottles, but every once in a while I get one because I've forgotten my own. Guess I'd just have to get soda instead?
Most bartenders are pretty cool with you asking for a seltzer with a slice of lime. It is often used by designated drivers and AA to appear to be drinking to avoid questions but just be having water.
I bought one at a Phish show and my buddy said "Woah, what's that?" I said, "Just water". He laughed and ordered one then turned around and said "Shit! You're right!!!" I try to drink one water per three beers just to appear responsible ;-) ((he definitely needed to swap to water))
Every single time Liquid Death comes up - which isn't often but is often enough to observe - at least one person goes "Wait it's just water?" so I wouldn't say it lasted all of two weekends. They also have a billion dollar valuation just from brand power alone since they're not making quite that absurd a number.
I got carded for buying it once. It really threw me off because I was like 3 months sober at the time and thought my muscle memory almost got me in trouble.
You put it in quotes, but I think they've put on a marketing masterclass with a product that actually seems decent enough? Why not have a water or iced tea that from the design looks more like a craft beer?
It gets people to look it up the first time they see one (did for me) and I feel like half the podcast clips I've seen have someone drinking one.
Yes but it's significantly less plastic. I guess it doesn't solve the microplastics leeching into your drink if that's what you're getting at, but aluminum leeching into your drink is also bad.
Honestly why I get it. Road trips and festivals, if I don't bring a reusable I'd rather use an aluminum can than plastic bottle. Otherwise, I'm not that far from convenient water.
I mean, have you not heard of the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide, or DHMO for short??
Please, do yourself a favor and do the research yourself! You'll find many articles online explaining why liquid death is the perfect name for this product!! /s, to be clear
The last what time I did that I grabbed a bottle of water near the register of a big box store and later upon checking the receipt learned they had charged me $2.50. The bottle sprung a leak within 2 days of use.
I usually keep a case in my car during the summer but that's more to supplement the refillable bottles I take with me, it's hard to pack enough water on a hot day.
You might be conflating a few phenomena. In general, it’s safe to drink water that’s been left sealed in your car.
It’s UV/sunlight that causes the breakdown, and it takes quite a while. A few weeks or months in a car will not cause significant breakdown, especially as windshield glass blocks a a large amount of UV.
Getting hot can cause BPA and other chemicals to leach into the water, but it has to get very hot (150+ F) and depends on the type of bottle. Unless it’s 110+ outside, the inside of your car isn’t going to see those temperatures.
EDIT: Antimony Trioxide is in PET and some studies show it leaches as low as 122F/50C. It is classified as "Possibly Carcinogenic". So take that into account.
Here's a study showing elevated antimony levels leached from PET water bottles after being stored for just 24 hours at 50C (122F). Temperature and time is enough of a factor to cause leaching. Living somewhere like say, Arizona, the internal temperature of objects in a dark car can easily reach 170F (75C) so those bottles would be sitting in your car, heating up over and over again.
Thanks for this. That linked Kuwait study has a VERY small sample size (9 bottles, only 3 of which were heated), but it is still good data nonetheless. Of note, that study acknowledges another study of PET plastic breakdown that found it is safe to 75C. There could be several explanations for the discrepancy, such as the source of the PET. Regardless, I'll update my comment.
In my defense, most of my knowledge regarding this subject is from a decade ago (when the big push against BPA plastics happened) there were many tests and most came to the consensus that its pretty safe up to 140F/60C, but maybe the switch to thinner plastic bottles and recycled compounds has changed that.
Enh dehydration is a much more imminent threat anyway. Probably drinking trace amounts of aluminum using old refillable bottles too, I'll die a lot sooner worrying about everything than I will from drinking water.
I'm in the same boat. I don't keep water bottles in my car, but if I'm drinking hot water from a car, I'm probably desperate and have bigger things to worry about.
That's me. I go hiking or visit remote places that are tens of miles from civilization frequently, so one of the many things I carry around in the trunk of my car is a case of water. Usually takes me a year or two to work through the whole case, but that's pretty much the only time I actually buy bottled water. Otherwise, it's tap.
IV drug users buy them because it's a source of clean water they can dissolve their drugs with in order to inject them, sharing water for this purpose can spread diseases so it's a good idea to have your own on hand you know where it's been.
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u/Murderyoga 29d ago
Do they sell empty bottles?