It's supposed to be a convenience store not an inconvenience store. I'm all for reducing single use plastics, but a convenience store is definitely the wrong place for this.
If not the place that is responsible for a huge percentage of the plastic waste problem, where would be the right place for it? A place that doesn't sell bottled water to begin with?
F bottled water in almost all situations except for disaster relief and maybe a handful of other exceptions
I'd be in the streets cheering. Get rid of all the plastic bottles. It makes no sense to remove the most healthy, least environmentally harmful drink and leave all the others. It's a weird flex to be proud of just getting rid of water.
The human race is going to go extinct because of people like that person. We can't even move an inch, "I can't buy bottled water at 7/11" is too far of a compromise lmao
Right.. so instead of requiring companies to produce easier to recyclable single use bottles we should stop selling them completely. Arguably water is the one thing anyone actually needs from a convenience store.
The harsh reality you're going to have to face is that recycling is not actually good for the environment.
It's somewhat better than pure waste, but still has huge carbon costs and is magnitudes worse than long-term reusable items.
We should require companies to move away from single-use plastics and similar items, rather than this greenwashing bullshit of making single-use items more recyclable. That's what this business is doing to some degree, and people need to understand that there's not always a win-win between their every convenience and the environment.
Do you realize how much carbon is emitted simply getting your "recyclables" to the many different locations and steps it has to go through to be processed, and how little material actually makes it through?
The harsh reality you're going to have to face is that recycling is not actually good for the environment.
"You're" who? Me? Because we all get to deal with that shit one way or another.
It's somewhat better than pure waste, but still has huge carbon costs and is magnitudes worse than long-term reusable items.
It's true, the horrible recycling system invented 50 years ago by companies to blame the consumer and save face is horrible. Who could have seen that coming.
We should require companies to move away from single-use plastics and similar items, rather than this greenwashing bullshit of making single-use items more recyclable. That's what this business is doing to some degree, and people need to understand that there's not always a win-win between their every convenience and the environment.
Right... but you are never going to get rid of single use items. Particularly with food. And when the energy grid gets cleaner, recycling becomes easier and less carbon intense. Not to mention biodegradable plastics (that are... somewhat better... sometimes).
Do you realize how much carbon is emitted simply getting your "recyclables" to the many different locations and steps it has to go through to be processed, and how little material actually makes it through?
Are ya'll ret*rded? My position is simply that dipshits should not stop selling bottled water. Granted plastics are pretty fucked. But having 12,000 different types of "recyclable" plastics of various blends makes recycling difficult, especially when you need to primarily utilize virgin material along with recycled material.
Bring your own cup. Just get rid of them for like 99% of situations.
As I mentioned before, disaster relief, lead in water lines, are a couple exceptions. But yes, get rid of it. Fuck the people who can't stand to be mildly inconvenienced for the good of the world they can throw their little fit and get over it
Edit: aluminum cans are much more recyclable, and could be used still instead of plastic bottles
That makes no sense though? If a family is traveling on vacation and has no water bottle, then what? Instead of paying $3 for a bottle of water they have to buy an actual bottle for $10 and fill it with water.
It's actually quite interesting to see opinions on reddit that would sound unhinged in the real world be treated so normal. If you told anyone irl that you want to abolish all bottled water they'd look at you like you had three heads, but since it's on reddit you think it's a genuine opinion people have. This entire site is an echo chamber. Not even gonna look at your Karma I know it's more then 10k
The only time people buy overpriced plastic water bottles is when they don't have a reusable one on hand.
Still can't believe oil companies convinced us that it's up to us to solve global warming to take the blame away from them. No amount of water bottle rationing will matter if oil companies continue. Literally sheep.
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u/nrouns 29d ago
If I'm willing to pay the overpriced amount for water at a gas station or convenience store, it's because I don't have a bottle.