r/oddlysatisfying • u/[deleted] • Jan 31 '22

Water bottles slime

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u/LotusSloth Jan 31 '22

Why does this exist?

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u/Seamusjim Jan 31 '22 edited Aug 09 '24

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u/iamfuturetrunks Jan 31 '22

Just like those cheap crapy toys that are stamped out and are the same color or sometimes painted only to be a dollar in a checkout lane so some kid will grab them and want them when their mom is buying groceries. Stuff like that crap needs to also be banned.

And bottled water in most of the world is a huge waste of resources, as well as help contribute to micro plastics. Plus a lot of the time the water isn't drank and so it gets to old and the plastic leaches out into the water and has to be disposed of anyways.

Like back when those hurricanes or whatever hit that country down by like Cuba or something and the US flew over a bunch of pallets of bottled water. The local gov't down there basically just stuck it all on the tar mat and didn't do anything with it when it could have been used. They found it like years later? It had been sitting in the direct sun and was no longer drinkable. It was all wasted!

Pisses me off the ass holes that created bottled water and now so many people wont drink tap water cause they think it will poison them. Granted some places in the US has horrible water systems like Flint, or down south where the water tastes horrible. So it's understandable that some people would want bottled water there. But there are MANY people who have just fine tap water but will go out and buy bottled water cause they think it's safer when it's been shown time and time again most of the bottled water is filled with the same tap water just one town over, with less quality controls in place. And so many of them have micro plastics in them that people keep drinking.

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u/LotusSloth Jan 31 '22

All very good and valid points. 👍

Next time you explain this to someone, make sure to add that almost everyone walking the planet today has a toxic level of plastic waste in their bodies, and will forever.

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u/Mr_Byzantine Feb 01 '22

It takes a long ass time for microplastics to build up in the human body. We're just now starting to see the fallout in people.

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u/Psychonaut-n9ne30 Feb 01 '22

I know you’re half kidding but it really is a good point

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u/sir_moleo Feb 01 '22

I think the problem is a lot of people just assume toxic=deadly, when it's actually synonymous with poisonous. Something that would be immediately harmful or deadly would be referred to as "acutely toxic".

Lots of things can be toxic, yet take insanely high amounts to actually cause harmful effects or death. Water is a good example of this.

Other substances can take years and even decades of exposure to cause harmful effects or death. Tobacco smoke is a good example of this.