Coke Putting Dasani Water in Cans Amid Backlash Against Plastic

[imglorp]

Purely a PR move based on false perception. Cans have a plastic coating inside!

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/is-the-can-wor...

[lbatx]

So the plastic lining inside the can (1) uses as much plastic as a plastic bottle and (2) is as damaging to the environment?

Since the answer to both of those questions is no, it's more than a PR move.

[unapprovedviews]

It's super thin layer of plastic Likely dramatically less plastic compared to a plastic bottle

[mc32]

Of course it is!

Just like the water in the “milk” cartons.

They might as well just sell water like Canadians sell milk —in simple plastic bags and then you put the bag in your favorite mug or whatever.

[rasz]

Like PV panels mounded on cars, its the first impression of uneducated masses that counts.

[koolba]

Also packaged water is so incredibly wasteful, pointless, and foul tasting that I can’t see it as anything but a PR move.

[Scoundreller]

I think this is a campaign against people refilling their water bottles.

[wpietri]

Interesting! I wonder if that's a big problem for them.

I tend to lose fancy water bottles, so I buy what are nominally single-use bottles and just refill them. I'm sure I get 10-20 uses out of them on average. But I figured my behavior is rare enough that it doesn't matter to the people selling the water.

[bluetwo]

Are you saying a large corporation would rollout a measure that makes them money and blame it on demand from the consumer?

(nods head)

[hndamien]

You can refill the aluminium bottles in the picture.

[thatfrenchguy]

Just drink tap water. It’s time to end this bottled water madness.

[Scoundreller]

And if you only have a sketchy water-source available, you can disinfect it by putting it in a plastic bottle in full sunlight for 4 hours.

Oh shit.

[jasonhansel]

Headline from 2050: "Coke proposes new, environmentally friendly system to pipe bottled water directly to consumers' homes"

[ravenstine]

Genius!

[dev_dull]

I think this is a great idea. And why not glass? It worked in the past. Glass bottles still work in many countries.

[devy]

Why not use fountain water taps and your own stainless steel bottle or glass bottle?

[batiudrami]

Unless the glass is directly recycled (collected, washed and refilled with the same product) they are much more energy intensive than plastic or aluminium to produce.

[ravenstine]

Because glass is a lot heavier than aluminum and there's way more loss due to breakage.

[rasz]

Cans lined with plastic, but on the inside so consumers dont notice.

[derekp7]

Is there less plastic though (due to the rigidity provided by the aluminum)? Also, does the plastic typically separate from the metal and get into the environment, or does it stay with the metal until recycling (in which it gets burned away when the can is melted)?

[word-reader]

If you choose metal containers because you think plastic is bad, remember that all aluminum food and beverage cans have plastic liners which usually contain BPA or other endocrine disruptors.

[reaperducer]

"Based on FDA’s ongoing safety review of scientific evidence, the available information continues to support the safety of BPA for the currently approved uses in food containers and packaging."

https://www.fda.gov/food/food-additives-petitions/bisphenol-...

I hope you don't mind if I believe the FDA over a bunch of rumors spread by the same internet know-nothings that brought back measles.

[Scoundreller]

Would this be true of a water can? I understand the necessity for something acidic, but water?

And if still true for water, hydrolysis will be slowed at a neutral pH.

[masonic]

The irony here is that Dasani is just treated municipal (tap) water, not spring or melt water.

[NuSkooler]

New amazing concept: Put water in a re-usable water. Drink. Repeat.