New Coke mini: Now with 36% less death!

[snopes]

We here at the Coca-Cola Company feel your pain. Or rather, we don't, actually, but we like to say we do in marketing copy, because it makes us sound beneficent and honest, like a good corporate citizen, when in fact we're all about figuring out sinister ways to keep you wildly addicted to as many of our products for as long as humanly possible -- which, if you drink enough of them, won't be that long at all.

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[Sylvanz]

Boy is that guy annoying.

P&LL, Syl

[Eddylizard]

That size has been around for ages hasn't it? It does work out more expensive than buying the regular sized can for sure, but doesn't everything get more expensive in smaller packages?

They are useful for kiddies who cannot physically consume the contents a regular sized can. "Dad I can't finish this, can you hold it" is an unwelcome question at 70 mph on the M5, trust me. Also good for lunchboxes.

Is that not the same size as airline beverage carts carry as well?

I'm assuming the larger, regular size will continue to be available, so what's the problem?

[Die Capacitrix]

Or just buy the 16 oz / 0.5 liter bottle, replace the cap when you've had enough, and then save the rest for another hit later?

Plastic recycling is available everywhere, but not aluminum. Not sure why, but this also means that most beverages are sold in plastic bottles. (Or the other way around.)

[Eddylizard]

In all my life I've never seen a plastic recycling collection point in Kent. I suspect they might exist, but if they do they are a closely guarded secret.

Even the council who operate the things are reluctant to tell you. When I moved I phoned them to ask where the nearest bottle bank was. "Sevenoaks" was the answer. Yes I'm going to make a 50 mile round trip and use a gallon and a quarter of petrol to make my contribution to the environment by dropping off a pickle jar. I can feel good about myself now.

Turns out there's about a mile away, but the environmental services department weren't going to tell me about it. I discovered it by a combination of stealth, cunning and blind luck.

Now if the "Environmental Services Department" doesn't know where their own recycling facilities are, what chance do I have?

ETA as for the half liter polybottles, they usually have a premium price attached to them - I can buy more coke for less in aluminium. Children are a moneypit.

[jw]

Originally Posted by Eddylizard

In all my life I've never seen a plastic recycling collection point in Kent. I suspect they might exist, but if they do they are a closely guarded secret.

Not so secret. I see why you can't find a bottle bank to recycle your plastics.

The plastic bottle banks around the borough have now been removed, all households have an extra green box for kerbside collection of plastic bottles and cans.

[Eddylizard]

Originally Posted by jw

Not so secret. I see why you can't find a bottle bank to recycle your plastics.

Tunbridge Wells and Tonbridge - two seperate towns adjacent by a few miles but different authorities. Tunbridge Wells in the Tunbridige Wells District Authority, Tonbridge is is in the Tonbeidge and Malling District Authority. They do things differerently over there.

[Avril]

I have never wanted an entire can of soda. I drink about half and have to throw it out. But one can already get cans at about a 1/2 size of the 12 oz. cans--so is this just more or less a redesign of that?

[snopes]

Originally Posted by Avril

I have never wanted an entire can of soda. I drink about half and have to throw it out. But one can already get cans at about a 1/2 size of the 12 oz. cans--so is this just more or less a redesign of that?

The idea is to offer drinks packaged according to their caloric content rather than by standard volume. Coca-Cola intends to offer various drinks in 90-calorie "mini" containers; presumably other drinks (e.g., Sprite, Fanta Orange, Barq’s Root Beer) have different caloric content and therefore their 90-calorie containers will differ in size from those of Coca-Cola.

[Kaytay]

These 100-calorie cans have been around for awhile. I wonder if they're going to do away with those in favour of the 90-cal cans?

I just end up buying bottles -- I never end up finishing a whole can either, and by god there is no sense paying more for those wee 100 cal cans. I just need my sweet, addictive shot of happiness...