Comments by "Digital Nomad" (@digitalnomad9985) on "The LIE of the Aluminum Can" video.

  1. So let's make the perfect the enemy of the good, right? I'm not hearing a solution. You decry the plastic liner in aluminum cans as if the recyclers carefully pealed it off and dumped it into the ocean. Rather it gets burned as the aluminum is melted, as unrecyclable plastic used to be and should be. As for the energy required to process bauxite into aluminum, most of that processing of ore takes place in Scandinavian countries with abundant, cheap, clean hydroelectric power. Fossil fuels and even nuclear can't compete. I drink tap water myself, and make coffee and tea with it, but I'm not such a Karen as to want to prohibit products I don't use. In a world chock full of evil, to vilify companies for innocently filling an innocent demand is morally obtuse. And plastic waste is a problem precisely because we stopped burning trash. It is a problem naive environmentalists caused. Moreover the plastic in oceans doesn't come from landfills, but from litter. As for refillable containers, well and good in principle, but you're limiting their life if the mouth of the container isn't big enough to stick your hand down in it so you can wash it. This would be obvious to anybody who tries to use such a container, which makes me suspicious of anybody who claims to use the ones you show for the purpose claimed. If you've been trying to use them for any length of time, you're touting them not to improve the situation, but to virtue signal.
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