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Transcription of Camille Crosnier's podcast on France Inter on May 3, 2021

Is it better to have a flask or plastic bottles?

Are flasks really greener than plastic bottles?

And if so, which material is better to focus on?

The match is folded as quickly as a bottle of mineral water under your foot: shriveled, when the flask is more resistant. Ditto for the impact on the planet. We would use (according to the figures not always agreeing between them, by the way), 96 plastic bottles (*) per year in France.

The rest ends up incinerated or, you know it in nature, where it takes 1000 years for a bottle to degrade, sowing micro and nanoparticles everywhere. In short: the calamity.

The flask is therefore a savior on the side, so too green, so too much looking-how-I-have-the-class-and-good-conscience-I-take-care-of-the-planet-in-n ' using-NO-bottle, dirty polluter!

But perfection is not of this world, and that also applies to the flask. The Ouest France newspaper broadcasts a very nice podcast every week, "Y'a le feu au lac", which scrutinized the ecological impact of a flask on April 19, 2021.

You have to look at what the flask is made of

Plastic, glass or stainless steel.

Stainless steel is the worst for the manufacturing process, very heavy: suddenly it takes 3 years of use to compensate for this manufacture, knowing that when it is insulated stainless steel, it is even longer since only the China produces these flasks, the only one to have the industrial tool for them, so all the pretty flasks that you see under different brands come out of the same place!

For glass flasks, it's two months of EXCLUSIVE use to compensate, and for classic plastic flasks, five months.

But watch out for the plastic ones! Lightweight, and cheaper, except it's still plastic that continues to push fine particles into your body, and will persist in the environment the day you throw away or lose the flask.

To choose, therefore, it is better to have a glass flask

Last trap in which not to fall

Buy it regularly, to vary. The manufacturers have understood the “fashion” potential of the flask, have you seen the number of models? But there you may look too cool with your jungle motif on Monday and flowers on Wednesday, it will have absolutely no interest, and the plastic bottle polluter will have the right to laugh in your face.

Source: The "Chonique environnement", Monday May 3, 2021 by  Camille Crosnier, For the environment, is it better to have a gourd or plastic bottles? Link: https: //www.franceinter.fr/emissions/la-chronique-environnement/la-chron ...

* Estimates made during the study commissioned by Seas at Risk from Eunomia, entitled: SINGLE-USE PLASTICS AND THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT, Leverage points for reducing, single-use plastics, Seas At Risk, June 2017.

** According to the annual economic study conducted by Asterès for ELIPSO. Asterès is a consulting firm in the economic field; ELIPSO is a professional association representing plastic packaging manufacturers in France.

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