> The plastic waste is due to the chosen diets of consumers.

They’re not chosen though, they are the result of billions of dollars spent on advertising.

And yet many choose to abstain. The advertising is a problem and should be banned, but that's not reason to dehumanize consumers by denying their agency. People do have a choice and they should be reminded of that at every opportunity.

I drank a lot of coke until about 10 years ago, when I stopped. The first year was difficult, after that I was not tempted anymore. The advertising has no effect on me.

I have drunk a couple cans since, but didn't particularly care for the sticky, syrupy taste, and did not resume the habit.

Even water bottles should have a deposit.

Tap water is better for you anyway. Bottled water has the minerals filtered out, tap water does not, and you need the minerals.

If you needed the minerals in tap water then I'd be dead because I very rarely drink tap water.

You can have a deficiency without it killing you.

And bottled water is stored in sun-lit areas for long periods of time - UV light destroys the hypochlorite (the bacteria-killing stuff).

Tap-water is kept in nice dark pipes.

Doesn't UV light also break down plastic? Does some of that stuff end up in the water? Bottled water already has more microplastics than tap water.[1]

1. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/15/micropla...

Bottled water usually uses ozone for disinfection (if spring water, not bottled tap water).

Usually that leaves it pure enough to not require chlorine for ongoing disinfection.

> Tap-water is kept in nice dark pipes.

It doesn't normally stay there long enough to get stagnant.

How do you know?

Because people use water in their homes and for water to get from the water reservoir to your house requires it to be moving.

Right. And water pipes are sized to the demand, which means water will be moving in them. The water pipe feeding your house isn't a foot in diameter.