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

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A standalone plastic bottle is 20-40g of PET.

The lining of a soda can is about 1g of BPA.

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Yeah, but it is a lining. The entire interior surface is plastic, so is the risk of chemical leeching any different?

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Yeah, you don’t get any aluminum leeched into your drink.

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Isn’t “BPA-free” a selling point for food-safe plastic because BPA is bad?

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Yes, but the problem is they replaced it with BPS which is basically the same, but less tested.

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

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Plastic burns easily in all types of fires.

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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.

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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.

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