To those who squeeze single use water bottles (think Aquafina, Dasani, Sam’s Choice, etc.) - WHY? Is gravity not fast enough for you? Do you enjoy the crinkly noise? Why squeeze when it’s literally falling out of the bottle?
I worked in recycling and we regularly got sued for noise pollution because trash is separated 24/7 where I live. So you need a huge loader to collect and bring it to the sorting machine and if a bottle is full with air and not squeezed the loader drives over it and it booms with ~95-130db. Ty for squeezing your bottles in the future 👉🏼👈🏼
I’ll think of you when I squeeze my bottle later
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Or leave it uncapped?
I don’t think you understand…
Then it wouldn’t explode
We used to put dry ice in them and toss them under the liquid tanks as people were cleaning the insides of the tank. Definitely was a great reminder to use the PPE.
I’m sorry, all I can hear right now is Archer talking about tinnitus
Yeah would also work. But best to press air out too, it also takes way less space for procedure too.
Can’t a motherfucker hydrate with force anymore?
WHY? Is gravity not fast enough for you? Do you enjoy the crinkly noise?
Yes, and yes. I also occasionally enjoy the feeling of it slushing with force into my mouth (insert innuendo here). It’s a mix of basically a kind of stimming, and the fact that I am genuinely really fast at drinking stuff - helped me win some drinking games, too, when I was still drinking alcohol in my youth.
Also, crinkling them up after the fact makes them take less space in the trash, in addition to feeling satisfying to do.
They don’t live in a place with bottle deposit, so they’re taking out their understandable frustration over this on the poor bottle.
Do they not take crushed bottles where you live?
The machines don’t like them crushed.
(sentences from 2346 CE)
Not the person you asked, but at least the automatic deposit machines I know need them to be somewhat bottle-shaped and with a printed on code on the lable readable. But I still crush those, and blow into them afterwards, to get them roughly into shape, if I need to return them. But for single-use bottles as described in the OP post, crushing all the way.
Crinkle
I usually get the water in really thin plastic with sport tops which are impossible to drink without the crink.
Sport tops because if I’m buying water I’m on my way to do something active and they are less spillable.
On a side note, the hard plastic bottles impart a really gross taste. Aquafina is sometimes okay while cold, but once it hits room temperature it tastes like plastic. Dasani always tastes like plastic ass.
I’m snobby about plastic. I think all water stored in plastic tastes like plastic and it’s gross. Flavored with 100% real microplastics. Water tastes best out of glass, but it’s expensive due to inadequate recycling infrastructure here, and it’s heavy.
Yeah, I don’t buy it very often anyway, so at least there’s that.
Everyone knows that if you squeeze, it will cum faster!
Speaking for myself, if I’m drinking fast enough the bottle will crush itself as the internal pressure drops. It’s part of the reason I prefer self venting bottles to single use bottles. They don’t crush and I can get water out of the fast enough if Im really thirsty.
to get the microplastics into them faster
You got it in one. Gravity isn’t fast enough.
No, it’s not fast enough. I’m not here to sip, I’m here to hydrate.
I avoid using single use bottles, but when I do, I often crush them after I’m finished to save space, so they don’t blow away and roll around as easily, and to save space in the recycling.
Squeezing out the water is simply a satisfying tactile experience.
Gotta make sure you get as much plastic as you can out of that sip
I think there are several logical reasons. First they may just like the small display of strength. Second, they could like the sound. Third, they could be compacting it to take less space in the trash/recycling.
