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Re:How is a company that sells canned water worth $1.4B? by infecto on Monday March 18, 2024 @04:19PM (#39749469)
Cans are lined with plastic though. Now you could make an argument that less plastic is used but your water is still touching plastic.
Re:How is a company that sells canned water worth $1.4B? by coffeebeqn on Monday March 18, 2024 @04:37PM (#39749696)
Good to know!
Re:How is a company that sells canned water worth $1.4B? by steveklabnik on Monday March 18, 2024 @04:44PM (#39749777)
See the thread below though; Liquid Death makes it a point to be free of this stuff, though I wish they just straight up had the sentence on their FAQ instead of implying it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39749467

Re:How is a company that sells canned water worth $1.4B? by remotefonts on Monday March 18, 2024 @05:41PM (#39750394)
Did you, by any chance, ever wonder if they don't straight up say it because they're lying on what they're only implying?
Re:How is a company that sells canned water worth $1.4B? by steveklabnik on Monday March 18, 2024 @06:09PM (#39750670)
I generally enjoy that usually companies who seriously lie in advertising end up facing the music often enough that I don't need to seriously consider such things.

I suspect this case, after reading about it in between actually working, that the claim is actually more scoped than I'd understood, because it is primarily about the recyclability of the can and not a literal claim of zero plastic.

That is, in fact, on me, but given that this isn't an aspect of the product I care about, not entirely shocking to me that I misunderstood. And I got to learn a fun fact about aluminum cans that I didn't know before!

Re:How is a company that sells canned water worth $1.4B? by infecto on Monday March 18, 2024 @07:59PM (#39751506)
You are not alone. It was not until I saw an experiment that dissolved the aluminum that I realized their was a plastic liner.