Some months ago I defended the herbal beverages made with various medicinal plant extracts: Kola Nut, Coca Leaf, root extracts, etc [1]. In that post I spoke of having a 2-Liter bottle of the classic herbal beverage for when it seemed like my blood sugar was getting a little low.

In recent months I've decided that even though the 2L bottles are probably cheaper on a per-ounce basis, my waste 2L bottles were contributing to the plastic problem. I've switched to buying 12 ounce cans, which I open and pour into a glass.

My last purchase of Kola was as boxed 12-packs (no plastic in the packaging, other than possibly in the can liner [2]). I save my cans, and will be taking them to a local salvage yard to be properly recycled.

My trash company supposedly has "single stream" recycling, but I doubt they find all the aluminum cans the waste stream.

In drafting this comment I found a Wired story about the engineering that goes into can production [2]. My cans probably have BPA liners -- "hmm". Maybe I'll buy some Kola nuts and make my own herbal beverage.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17979670 [2] https://www.wired.com/2015/03/secret-life-aluminum-can-true-...