David Rosenthal: commitment

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…That’s crazy, and good for Pepsi to log this win. Pretty bad for the world to start this single use plastics treadmill that we’re all on now. Just to get that out of the way, I was looking up studies recently. The Coca-Cola company is the number one polluter globally of crap in the ocean. Pepsi’s very close behind, all the big drink companies. Everyone is always saying, we’re trying to do a better job at this. We’re trying to do a better job creating recyclable stuff. But the world is full of a crap ton of single use plastics. 100%. Man, I had not focused on this issue at all until doing the research. I am going to only buy can and glass bottles going forward. There’s no reason not to buy cans and glass. They’re actually recyclable. It’s funny. I’ve accidentally started doing that anyway because whenever I travel now, I use those PATH Water bottles that they sell in airports and you can just refill them. I’m not going out of my way to be like, oh my gosh, I need the metal over the plastic, but now it just feels weird to buy plastic bottles. Now that I’m so much more attuned to microplastics, I’m also never going to drink fluid that was sitting in a plastic bottle for a long time after I opened it or refill it. I used to refill plastic water bottles and now I’m like, ugh. Who knows what’s degrading in my beverage? But yeah, this is the start of the plastification.…

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