• SuperSoftAbby@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Plastic definitely had a pretty good PR team in the beginning there. “Don’t use metal cans, the chemicals the leach into water kills fish”. “Switch to plastic drink bottles, glass is dangerous to wildlife if it ends up in the ocean”

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Never heard those. The ones I would hear are. It takes a bajillion pounds of fossil fuels to make one can. Glass will just randomly explode into a shower of splinters that will definitely get into all the children’s feet with no warning whatsoever.