So that's why the paper goods aisle of HEB was looking destroyed when I was there yesterday.
Sadly, 90% of toilet paper is American made.
So that's why the paper goods aisle of HEB was looking destroyed when I was there yesterday.
I'd read somewhere that other 10% comes from Mexico or Canada...via truck.Sadly, 90% of toilet paper is American made.
How long will water in plastic bottles be potable when stored in a garage, exposed to heat?
Sadly, 90% of toilet paper is American made.
US makes TP too. International Paper and two other companies reside in southeastern Oklahoma. I know International makes TP.<>
T.P. is made from softwood pulp; mainly from the great Canadian conifer forests.
I think ?
It should travel by train or truck to Texas.
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How long will water in plastic bottles be potable when stored in a garage, exposed to heat?
Didn't know that. Is that on all the brands or just the really cheap thin bottles that fold up in your hand while you try to twist the cap off?Takes one summer for the mold seam on those cheap plastic bottles to fail in the heat. So it doesn't really matter how long the water will keep because it's gonna become feral water and escape before you know it.
Didn't know that. Is that on all the brands or just the really cheap thin bottles that fold up in your hand while you try to twist the cap off?
Ah, okay. I thought you were talking about bottled water, Dasani, Aquafina, etc. Thanks.The one gallon milk jug type are prone to it. I had some gently used distilled water jugs I had refilled with tapwater out in the forge, because hauling water for the quench tank is a hassle so I figured I'd stockpile it over the summer and replenish what evaporated. Found all the bottles at least mostly empty when the time came to add water to the tank, and they damn near ruined the shelf they were sitting on.
Free range water!Takes one summer for the mold seam on those cheap plastic bottles to fail in the heat. So it doesn't really matter how long the water will keep because it's gonna become feral water and escape before you know it.
Ah, okay. I thought you were talking about bottled water, Dasani, Aquafina, etc. Thanks.
I hate that. I still buy Hill Country at HEB but when they switched over to the thin bottles, I was mightily irritated.... the really cheap thin bottles that fold up in your hand while you try to twist the cap off?
Reporting by CNN and USAToday seems to be responsible for creating panic buying of toilet paper and water. Both are domestic products, as is Shiner.No hope for humanity. Hoarding water and toilet paper again due to the port strike even though it's all produced within the US.
Costco run on water and toilet paper
Depends on the bottle... had some el cheapo 500ml water bottles rolling around in the back of a cargo Sprinter I used to haul dirt bikes around. They had been in there probably close to two years in the heat and while they had a slightly gasoline flavor I lived.Takes one summer for the mold seam on those cheap plastic bottles to fail in the heat. So it doesn't really matter how long the water will keep because it's gonna become feral water and escape before you know it.
Milk jugs are PE (HDPE, iirc) soda and most water bottles are PET.The one gallon milk jug type are prone to it. I had some gently used distilled water jugs I had refilled with tapwater out in the forge, because hauling water for the quench tank is a hassle so I figured I'd stockpile it over the summer and replenish what evaporated. Found all the bottles at least mostly empty when the time came to add water to the tank, and they damn near ruined the shelf they were sitting on.
I hate that. I still buy Hill Country at HEB but when they switched over to the thin bottles, I was mightily irritated.
I don't know why I was surprised, though. It was just a few years earlier that HEB switched to the ultra-thin plastic bags at checkout. Previously, I almost never needed household plastic trash bags. I just recycled the grocery bags from HEB. I even installed an inside-the-cabinet-door frame designed to hold those plastic bags open for that use.
Not any more. When the grocery bags got too thin to repurpose as garbage bags I had to start buying a lot more plastic garbage bags.
By making the bags thinner so they used less plastic, I was forced to use a lot more plastic.
Those unintended consequences will smack you in the head every time.
My wife keeps a few dozen in the well house to 'bag-up-the-poop'.Just double or triple them. I use them for dog poop. But I check the first to make sure it doesn’t have those tiny holes, then I put it all inside more plastic bags.
We also use them for wastebasket liners, but not for kitchen garbage, which can be wet.
My wife keeps a few dozen in the well house to 'bag-up-the-poop'.
She even puts bank statements and personal papers in the bottom of the bags to 'discourage' snoopers.