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I find this semi offensive. Without data it's worthless. I don't have the actual data either but I suspect mining for the stuff required for titanium alloys and the stuff for the silicone lid is equally harmful to the world as a plastic bottle using petrochemical crap.
Energy consumption creating this bottle must also be greater than the plastic bottle as HDPE or similar softer plastics for beverage melt at around 180-190°c.
And while they claim there is no micro plastic inside your drink, covering the bottle in plastic means creating microplastic as it gets taken in and out of the cages. Also, can the inner layer and the outer layer be easily separated? Or are we just burning the plastic off when the bottle needs to be recycled? The outer plastic and inner ti while react differently to different temperatures. What happens if this composite starts failing?
While specialized bottles are not the greatest solution ever, they do not taste specifically of plastic to me, they can be seperated into different type of plastics easily and they could in fact be recycled into new bottle if the infrastructure allowed for it.
And plastic bottles last a long time in my experience. While they look worn after a season they can keep going and going for years of you clean them and don't drink too much sugary stuff from them.
Keego sounds like green washing marketing bull shit to me. Prove me wrong please!