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by word-reader 2503 days ago
I doubt that selling Dasani water in aluminum cans in the Northeast US is going to move the needle on global plastic pollution, with the entire US accounting for less than 1% of plastic pollution (below countries such as North Korea and Algeria [1]) despite having 4% of the population and 24% of GDP.

[1] https://www.iswa.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Calendar_2011_03_...