Why Squeeze Water Bottles?
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?
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.
I try to use metal/glass bottles as much as I can but when I drink from a plastic one I will squeeze it when it's empty (and put the cap back on) so it will waste less space in the recycling bin so we can (me and other people) can put more stuff in the recycling bin.
Exactly like I will flatten packages I want to throw away.
it will waste less space in the recycling bin
In here pretty much every bottle and can for beverages has a deposit included in them. 0,10€ for small (<1l I think) plastic bottles, 0,15€ for cans. They're included in the shelf price and when you bring them back to the recycling you'll get your deposit back. Then the recycling machine crushes all to pallets and they're hauled to a factory which then makes new stuff out of the plastic and aluminium.
No need to throw them away. In here the return rate is >90% and even if you don't care about the few coins it's common to leave the empty bottles on top of or next to a recycling bin where others can pick them up and return.
Here in France I don't think we have a deposit for plastic containers as that's what I'm talking about: I don't throw away glass bottles or metal ones (and BTW by metal I meant those reusable water bottles thermos-like, not those one use aluminum cans that I refuse to use, I may have made that clearer ;). As much as I can tell, we're asked to throw those plastic (and even the metal cans) in the dedicated 'recycling' booths/bins that are collected and recycled... at least that's the theory.
Most bottle lids are not recyclable
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?
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.
The machines don't like them crushed.
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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.
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.
You got it in one. Gravity isn't fast enough.
to get the microplastics into them faster
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.
Gotta make sure you get as much plastic as you can out of that sip
No, it's not fast enough. I'm not here to sip, I'm here to hydrate.
Squeezing out the water is simply a satisfying tactile experience.
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.
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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
Yeah would also work. But best to press air out too, it also takes way less space for procedure too.