Thread 213874235

They buy milk.......in plastic bags

>>213874235 (OP)
We had milk in bags here when i was in elementary school

>>213874235 (OP)
surely cartons would be better. why do they do this?

>>213874235 (OP)
When we were a poor(er) country, we had metal bags because it was cheaper than plastic in the long run.

>>213874314
It's cheaper I guess

>>213874235 (OP)
Problem?

>>213874235 (OP)
still better than detergent bottles like americans

>>213874235 (OP)
>>213874394
Mmmmmm microplastics drink...

>>213874339
>metal bags
?

>>213874394
It's usually cheaper than bottled on like ~1/3 - 1/4.
>>213874465
Plastic bottles are the main source of the microplastics actually.

Yes

we do this too in LITHUANIA

this seems wasteful. You'd have to consume all of it immediately. Jugs are superior.

When we were starving thirdies we did

Here you can buy a bag of bags of milk

>>213874505
Plastic bottles are only the main source of microplastics because they're more widespread than buying liquids in a fucking plastic bag lmao

>>213874465
How else is it stored? It's all plastic

>>213874646
I eat plastic
Nothing bad ever happened

You can argue I'm full of macroplastics

>>213874465
>>213874505
microplastics come from rubber tires (they wear down, the bits of rubber have to go somewhere), city dust (same thing mostly, vehicles tearing shit up) and synthetic clothing (when they're washed)
normal plastic doesn't just start shedding bits of itself at random, you have to manhandle them, or heat them up, plastic food wrappings produce basically no microplastics unless you do an indian burn on them a bunch before opening them

>>213874925
I meant in human body, not overall.

>>213874235 (OP)
Okay?

>>213874235 (OP)
didn't we use to have those things in the 90's? some older anon correct me if i'm wrong

>>213875059
most of the microplastics in your body do come from those
people wash their synthetic clothes, or rain washes a bunch of rubber particles into a river, and your town eventually uses some of that water for your drinking water, microplastics are essentially a water contamination problem
avoidind plastic bottles and wrappings makes basically no difference, you have to move somewhere upstream where there's less urban development shitting up the local water sources

>>213874235 (OP)
i'd say 50% of milk is sold in these bottles here, 40% in cardboard bottles and 10% in glass. Thank you for your attention

>>213874235 (OP)
>They buy milk.......in plastic bags
I prefer when they're stored in funbags.

>>213874314
i assume they're for raw milk, so they're meant to be consumed within 2~3 days of shipping so putting them in a plastic bag comes out cheaper

>>213874235 (OP)
Delicious microplastic

only sensible way to transport and store milk coming through

>>213874906
That's not a bag. That's a tin jug.

>>213874906
>>213878223
My mistake. That's actually called a "milk churn".

>>213874465
anon...
even the tetrapack is plastic. the layer which touches the milk in tetrapack is... plastic

in 2030 everything is from plastic.

>>213874235 (OP)
I will never understand ketchup in glass bottles.
Makes no sense.

>>213874465
Anon, even cans contain plastic. So do our cardboard tetrapacks.

>>213879771
Ketchup was invented before plastic bottles were invented.

>>213879823
Yes, that's understandable. But that's not a reason to keep it in glass bottles today.
Having any sort of thick substance in a glass bottle (without an opening large enough for a spoon) is retardation.

>>213874465
Tetrapack also have a plastic coating