r/SipsTea • u/DelicateAurora • 8h ago

Lmao gottem Valid point

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u/sisdog 7h ago

Do people have an issue of losing the cap to their water?

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u/ulfOptimism 7h ago

The environment has an issue with the caps as they are small enough to be eaten by animals like birds.

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u/CaptaiNose 6h ago

What bird is eating bottlecaps? Y'all still got pterodactyls?

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u/ulfOptimism 5h ago

See this articles below:

"This is where the plastic waste ends." Translation (English):

"Record-breaking levels of plastic found in seabirds, with almost 900 pieces found in one bird alone"

Quote: "Alongside the more generic pieces of otherwise unidentifiable plastic found by the team, the team noted that plastic resin pellets, known as nurdles, and bottle caps were increasing as a proportion of waste."

See also the images here:

https://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/plastik-im-bauch-seevoegel-sterben-fotostrecke-142462.html

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u/CaptaiNose 5h ago

This is completely different from what you said

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u/ulfOptimism 2h ago

Why do you think so? Where is the key difference between saying "(...) small enough to be eaten by animals like birds" and the findings described in articles above?

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u/CaptaiNose 48m ago

Because your statement implies that birds are eating whole bottle caps, not deteriorations of plastic as the articles are about.