this is literally one of the dumbest places to keep undrinkable chemicals i’ve every seen in my life… pic.twitter.com/oXxtgACKsE
— Brennasaid (@brennasaid) July 4, 2023
Twitter user @Brennasaid offers this series of photos of a household cleaning product. It's Puracy, a new product that highlights its eco-friendly packaing. The use of an aluminum can is entirely intentional. The company hopes that customers will recycle the cans instead of just throwing away plastic bottles.
@Brennasaid notes some problems with this design. It looks almost exactly like a canned drink. The outside actually labels the product as "green tea + lime". I'll guess that's the scent, not the favor, and I'm most definitely not volunteering to test that hypothesis.
The paper label on top warns against drinking the product. But perhaps packaging should be designed so that such a warning is unnecessary.
-via Jeremy Barker
During filming of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in 1965, Eli Wallach, who played Tuco, drank what he thought was a soft drink from a soda pop bottle, but it turned out to be acid that some doofus had poured into it to store it. He had to go to hospital. The saga of these cans won't end well.
Could also be a very very bad bad attempt to fight Illiteracy.
Also, I don't know much about the substance in the can and how toxic it is, but would it even be safe to recycle such a container?