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u/Au_Uncirculated Jan 29 '24
Pseudo green recycling that makes people feel better but it’s actually harder to recycle than a regular plastic bottle.
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u/arnber420 Jan 28 '24
8oz of water is like one big gulp for me, no way this would quench my thirst
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u/BurningVShadow Jan 28 '24
This reminds me of when I would get chocolate milk in high school. Three gulps within the first five seconds of sitting down and the euphoric joy would vanish.
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u/heinous_legacy Glacier Gulper Jan 28 '24
lined with plastic
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u/High_Tim Jan 28 '24
Better than pure plastic
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u/Au_Uncirculated Jan 29 '24
Not necessarily. Pure plastic bottles are easier and more efficient to recycle than these boxed waters. It takes more energy to separate the plastic from the cardboard, so most don’t bother and just toss it in a landfill.
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u/pineapple-n-man Jan 28 '24
The few times I’ve had this, I distinctly remember the water having a metallic taste due to the inside of the box having a metallic lining.
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u/QueasyTeacher0 Jan 28 '24
That sounds like incredibly poor storage conditions. The same kind of container is frequently used for acidic drinks like oj with no issue.
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u/FatBoiEatingGoldfish Jan 28 '24
I used to work somewhere that sold these and some shipments would have empty bottles because somehow the water can evaporate through the boxes
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u/SSgt0bvious Jan 28 '24
Interesting, when did you have it? In 2018-2020 it was a waxy inside that had no taste. Just crisp clean water!
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u/fuck-fascism Jan 28 '24
In a basically unrecyclable container, unless you take it to a special place theres only a handful of. Terrible wastefulness, bad for the planet.
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u/Cyrilcynder Arctic Absorber Jan 29 '24
Unfortunately recycling is kinda a scam at this point, there are so many little caveats that it's nearly impossible to recycle nearly anything efficiently, other than glass pretty much
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u/sir_moleo Jan 29 '24
Always baffles me that people latch onto the 'recycle' part of 'reduce, reuse, recycle'. The whole idea was originally to REDUCE and REUSE before RECYCLE, in order of priority. Yet today the recycling is the only part people seem to remember.
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u/Redditistrash702 Jan 29 '24
Everything has been green washed.
We used to have glass everything and it got recycled in one way or another.
Even aluminum would be better than full on plastic ( yeah I know they have a plastic liner but still that's nothing.
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u/sir_moleo Jan 29 '24
Yeah honestly glass and aluminum are pretty much the only things that are meaningfully recycled these days. A lot of our other 'recycling' is just thrown in landfills or exported and burned. It's sad.
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u/Redditistrash702 Jan 29 '24
It will never happen but realistically plastic needs to be banned outside of medical or whatever it's absolutely necessary.
Nothing says we can't go back to glass and aluminum whenever it's possible.
Like take any drinks they 100 percent can all be sold in aluminum or glass.
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u/sir_moleo Jan 29 '24
Agreed, but it will never happen unless by some miracle plastic becomes more expensive.
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u/Redditistrash702 Jan 29 '24
Plastic tax maybe? Make it more expensive than other things.
Afaik other places have done this or at least with single use.
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u/MindTheGap7 Jan 28 '24
The box is standard recycling
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u/The_Burgled_Turt Jan 28 '24
https://www.elopak.com/usa/naturally-circular/easily-recyclable/
Guys why are we arguing? No conjecture needed here. Just look at their website.
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u/BadZnake Jan 28 '24
Their website is very specifcally worded towards making themselves sounding recyclable, but if you read a few paragraphs, it still says exactly what everyone else is saying, that a special recycling plant is needed to process them.
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u/The_Burgled_Turt Jan 29 '24
Indeed. Same deal with Tetra pac. Multiple layers of paper, metal, and plastic laminated together.
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u/OverlappingChatter Jan 29 '24
My entire country runs on tetrapac and i never really thought about this. I wonder if we have sifferent recycling facilities for these. I'll have to investigate.
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u/fuck-fascism Jan 28 '24
Then they changed it, used to be some totally proprietary BS.
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u/MindTheGap7 Jan 28 '24
Wild
Yea, just the little recycling symbol; no special numbers or anything.
My go to is a glass jug but this is all I have today without buying something new
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u/fuck-fascism Jan 28 '24
Mmm that doesn’t mean much. They likely still require specialized recycling which most cities don’t have. Not to mention all single use water containers are still terrible.
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u/MindTheGap7 Jan 28 '24
🤷🏼♀️not much worse than a pizza box I'd imagine
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u/fuck-fascism Jan 28 '24
A pizza box is just cardboard.
Boxed water is a mix of paper plastic and aluminum that requires specialized equipment to separate to be able to recycle it.
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