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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/41907712

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[–] [email protected] 106 points 3 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Personally, id choose them over plastic ones if not just to save plastic

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

doesn't metal manufacturing use quite a lot more energy?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 months ago (3 children)

But it has the benefit of not breaking down into micro plastics and getting into every part of everyone.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

"Honey, I accidently digested our SD card again"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

True enough. Though I wonder, as a thought experiment, what would be the actual better option in the long run. Some type of resin maybe?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

that's...

I somehow doubt that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Uranium baseball cups. Not physically possible to throw a baseball hard enough to damage the goods, plus it helps combat the effects of overpopulation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I guess using renewables for the energy needs of metal production would work too

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Good thing heavy metal toxicity isn't a problem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Steel or stainless ain't gonna give you metal poisoning

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Stainless steel leaches nickel and chromium.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Better toss all your cookware then

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'll toss it when I toss my plastic tupperware. The problem is re-usability, not what it's made out of. SD card gets tossed out, doesn't matter what it is made out of, it's going to pollute.

What a downvote Nancy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

probably, but then i can ingest less micro plastics. Which is probably good.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You're not supposed to eat them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

i literally cannot help myself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

at least its not a single use product, the packaging it comes in is probably a worse contributor

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

honestly, this might be true. There are definitely worse things to be made from metal lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

But what about ingesting micrometals

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

do micro metals even exist in substantial capacity? The problem with micro plastics is that they don't break down and decay until like a gazillion years later, so whatever micro plastics are in your kidneys now, will continue to be in them until you die.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

People will pay more money for premium.

But yeah environmentally this is a damn good idea. We should make everything out of metal.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

sounds pretty metal

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Maybe extreme weather conditions for trail cams? That's the only reason I would think about using one but never actually buy one for lol.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)