I'm old enough to remember when everybody mocked the idea of milk in plastic containers. Now it's almost impossible to find milk in those glass bottles anymore.
Posted on 02/14/2021 10:08:24 AM PST by Kaslin
Have you been unfortunate fortunate enough to try a paper straw?
Being on the West Coast, I’ve had the pleasure.
Many, many times.
For those of you yet to partake, you’ll love it — assuming you have the digestive system of a goat.
As for function, the straw pulls double duty.
For the first 4 minutes, it allows you to swallow liquid.
At 4:01 and beyond — in my experience — it feeds you a paper stick.
MMMmmmMMM good.
Apropos, Coca-Cola’s about to try a paper bottle.
From The Daily Wire:
Coca-Cola plans to do a test-run of 2,000 paper bottles this summer to see how they perform in the marketplace and with consumers. The prototype was made “by a Danish company from an extra-long paper shell that still contains a thin plastic liner.” It is a first step in a long-term project of completely ridding plastic from the company’s drink containers.
Per the British Broadcasting Company, the mission “is to create a 100% recyclable, plastic-free bottle capable of preventing gas escaping from carbonated drinks.”
And here’s a trick: “The barrier must…ensure no [fibers] flake off into the liquid.”
Because:
[Failure would risk] altering the taste of the drink — or potentially fall foul of health and safety checks.
As worded by the BBC, America’s favorite soft drink aims to produce “zero waste by 2030.”
Clearly, it’s impossible to produce no waste. But Coke has reason to turn a new leaf: Last year, charity organization Break Free From Plastic deemed it the world’s number one plastic polluter.
In service to a transformation, the Danish enterprise — Paper Bottle Company, or Paboco — has accomplished quite a feat — the biodegradable container had to be moldable to various shapes as well as take inked labels.
More from BBC:
After more than seven years of lab work, the firm is now ready to host a trial in Hungary this summer of Coca-Cola’s fruit drink Adez. Initially, this will involve 2,000 bottles distributed via a local retail chain.
And they’re not just doing it for Coke:
Absolut, the vodka-maker, is due to test 2,000 paper bottles of it own in the UK and Sweden of its pre-mixed, carbonated raspberry drink. And beer company Carlsberg is also building prototypes of a paper beer bottle.
So how do you make curved paper pass muster?
Michael Michelsen, the firm’s commercial manager, says the bottles are formed out of a single piece of paper-fibre-based material to give them strength.“That’s part of the secret really,” he explained, adding that [molding] a single object – rather than relying on joins – ensured the bonds between the fibres stayed robust.
“With a clever combination of product design and the strong [fiber] blend, that’s what makes it really possible to not break under pressure.”
In theory, it’s been sufficiently engineered.
However — as noted by Michael — they won’t know for sure ’til taking a real-world shot.
Would you buy a soft drink contained in curved paper?
You may soon get your chance.
When the time comes, a word of advice: Don’t use a paper straw.
That’s what it sounds like paper container lined with plastic.
that must’ve been a sticky situation...
Penny for the 8 oz. 3 pennies for a 16 oz.
Those paper straws were useless!
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Yeah but I’ll bet no one impaled themselves on them.
Yes. Grape Gravy is one of the other things suggested as things that float before the King wisely suggests a duck.
Has anyone tried to pick up a just-opened bottle of Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice? They now use such a thin gauge of plastic that the bottle collapses into itself when you pick it up to pour. The only solution is to hold the container with two hands, one near the spout and the second on the bottom so it will not fall out of your hand as it collapses inward. That is only one example of a problem that exists with hundreds, if not thousands, of larger plastic containers.
Here is another one. We had paper bags for groceries and lots of other retail items. Then they said paper was bad because forests were being destroyed. They hid the fact that paper is made from trees that are fast growing and make excellent paper and are grown on tree plantations, not forest trees. Then, they had us use plastic. Then, they said plastic is bad because it does not decompose. Then they passed a law in California forcing stores to charge customers 10 cents per bag. Then customers stated buying cloth bags and saving the 10 cents per bag. Then they said we needed to wash those cloth bags other wise the bacteria would harm us. Then, Covid came along, and the stores would not allow us to use our own bags. So, we had to go back to paying 10 cents per bag for plastic bags which to not decompose. All of this baloney brought to us by the geniuses in Federal, state, and local governments.
IT STILL needs a ‘thin plastic liner’.
BUT-—they have to be returned to the bottling companies & lots of water used to clean them for reuse.
Takes over 2000 degrees to melt the sand into glass. CAN NOT do that with wind or solar power.
Returning them to the bottling company requires freight & lots of water to clean them for reuse.
The trees we are NOT allowed to cut down....
Same trees that MUST have CO2 to survive.
Same trees that produce Oxygen.
SAME trees produce Oxygen.
Takes alot of water to clean those bottles for reuse.
I'm old enough to remember when everybody mocked the idea of milk in plastic containers. Now it's almost impossible to find milk in those glass bottles anymore.
Maybe they could take that sand down to DC, and let all those politicians blow all their hot air on it.
Every kid had a basket on their bikes just for bottles. Once you got a few it was off to the dime store for candy.
You could take the money or double that if you took it in candy. You could get a pretty big bag of candy.
Me too!
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