Plastic - NO

[Amari]

If you think that's bad then you should see what Dihydrogen Monoxide is doing to the environment...

• Death due to accidental inhalation of DHMO, even in small quantities.
• Prolonged exposure to solid DHMO causes severe tissue damage.
• Excessive ingestion produces a number of unpleasant though not typically life-threatening side-effects.
• DHMO is a major component of acid rain.
• Gaseous DHMO can cause severe burns.
• Contributes to soil erosion.
• Leads to corrosion and oxidation of many metals.
• Contamination of electrical systems often causes short-circuits.
• Exposure decreases effectiveness of automobile brakes.
• Found in biopsies of pre-cancerous tumors and lesions.
• Given to vicious dogs involved in recent deadly attacks.
• Often associated with killer hurricanes and cyclones in the U.S. Midwest and elsewhere.
• Thermal variations in DHMO are a suspected contributor to the El Nino weather effect.

There is an escape route: move to Capetown where supplies of this toxic liquid have dried up and use by the populace is being progressively restricted.

 

[madasafish]

There is an escape route: move to Capetown where supplies of this toxic liquid have dried up and use by the populace is being progressively restricted.

I have a simpler and cheaper and more pleasant solution:
Drink gin as dihydrogen monoxide is tasteless when pure..

 

[For want of a better word]

I have a simpler and cheaper and more pleasant solution:
Drink gin as dihydrogen monoxide is tasteless when pure..

Oxigin, hydrogin .. nitrogin??????



Yeghes da

 

[Newbeeneil]

I think my bees were out on the search of DHMO earlier.... hope they don't contaminate the honey!

 

[DanBee]

OK, my bad: I took the thread off in a DHMO tangent.

My point was that the metal tins had their problems, everything has a risk even common everyday materials. Hats off to Thrones for trying to innovate.

I agree that single use plastic is a great problem. But what if that single use is 15+ years (like my tin of brown shoe polish!) and then always the thought that when empty it might be a useful container for... small screws... Cupkit cell cups... fuses... whatever... ? Does that elongated period of use mitigate the harm? How many water bottles might have been thrown away in that time?!