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Fuckin' bottle caps, man

Also cheap plastic lighters. I didn't expect it. It's probably because birds are attracted to "colorful" objects.

for real, reusable bottles are great. Though I suppose there is some debate over bisphenol A in nalgene bottles and it's just one more thing to carry around for some people.

I carry a metal bottle, and NALGENE is now moving to stainless steel bottles.

It would've been great if we'd just skipped all the steps between canteens and going back to metal bottles, though. That whole 80's-00's trend of making products disposable to increase sales and profit margins was really a waste.

>That whole 80's-00's trend of making products disposable to increase sales and profit margins was really a waste.

You think that this isn't still going on? Electronics are still get more disposable and designed to fall apart more quickly AFAICT.

Oh, yeah, it's still going on, but at least the tide of "in the future everyone will use disposable cell phones and computers" articles has died down a bit.

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