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So what's another plastic bottle in the dump right? Someone will figure it out, as long as you don't need to deal with the hassle

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In my country, plastic bottles have returnable deposits, so they tend to not end in the dump. There are also glass bottles available.

That said, I think plastic can be OK if it is trashed adequately. I don't think my plastic bottles end up in the oceans.

Even if it gets recycled, it's not free. Raw materials need to be collected, processed, and transfered. The bottle-quality plastic has to be created and transfeed to the bottle making factory. The bottles transfered again potentially, filled with water, wrapped in more plastic, transfered again.... all that before recycling.

Filters are also not free.

Sure we aren't at zero yet. But dropping the ecological footprint by 99% is a good first step.

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