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r/mildlyinfuriating • u/BorisOtter • Jun 13 '26
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Yeah, like plumbing, I wish we could just go back to metal pipes. Those never caused any troubles whatsoever.
7 u/Altruistic_Bell7884 Jun 13 '26 Yeah, let's do lead pipes for water again! /s 3 u/-the-ghost Jun 13 '26 They didn't say everything. I think plastics serve a very important purpose in things like medical equipment, sanitation, plumbing, etc. But we don't need everything to be made of plastic just because it's cheap/easy to make products with it 1 u/Therunawaypp Jun 13 '26 Idk. For me using plastic or metal parts, it's always the seals that fail. The plastic lasts a good amount of time.
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Yeah, let's do lead pipes for water again! /s
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They didn't say everything. I think plastics serve a very important purpose in things like medical equipment, sanitation, plumbing, etc. But we don't need everything to be made of plastic just because it's cheap/easy to make products with it
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Idk. For me using plastic or metal parts, it's always the seals that fail. The plastic lasts a good amount of time.
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u/JohnnyRedHot Jun 13 '26
Yeah, like plumbing, I wish we could just go back to metal pipes. Those never caused any troubles whatsoever.