The reliance on bottled water results in significant health, financial and environmental costs, experts say
  • SteveEnglish
    23·
    6 months ago

    Not sure what you mean by dissolving. As far as so know aluminum gets melted down. Any plastic, inks, or other impurities get burned off generally.

      • SteveEnglish
        23·
        6 months ago

        Yah, that’s not how they are recycled. That gets burned off by the temps required to melt the aluminum.

          • SteveEnglish
            3·
            6 months ago

            It’s not. It’s a thin plastic film. One that doesn’t get into the environment at nearly the rate, since the aluminum is actually worth recycling.

              • SteveEnglish
                22·
                6 months ago

                I think you may have an unworkable concept of what “solving” the plastic problem means, when you can’t tell the difference between a film and a bottle. Both of which have largely phased out BPA already.

        • P1nkman@lemmy.world
          5·
          6 months ago

          I, nor the poster you replied to, never mentioned recycling. Your starting to put things into the discussion that was never there.

          • SteveEnglish
            11·
            6 months ago

            It does seem that way.
            I guess I’m not sure what problem you’re talking about.