Doomsday [OC]

posted by u/kaikimanga · 2026-10-22 13:12 UTC

## Top comments

1. u/kaikimanga · 2026-10-22 13:14 UTC

Sorry, there's actually one thing I lied about in this story: Freedom Oil Co isn't real. My bad. But naming what company my aunt actually works for is probably a bad idea xD This is the same woman who scolds me for using aluminum foil btw

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2. u/UpCDownCLeftCRightC · 2026-10-22 13:15 UTC

How the heck do you get scolded for aluminum foil?

3. u/kaikimanga · 2026-10-22 13:19 UTC

Something about not degrading. Interestingly enough, plastic wrap is made from oil

4. u/thicktimmy · 2026-10-22 13:35 UTC

I find this super hilarious because aluminum is crazy recyclable. One statistic that was thrown out in a metal packaging course I took is that 80% of aluminum ever produced is still in circulation

5. u/Menacek · 2026-10-22 13:45 UTC

Additionally it's not degradable because it's a piece of metal. That has very different effect on the environment that plastics. And even though aluminum is corrosion resistance i'm pretty sure it doesn't take that long to degrade chemically.

6. u/Stoned_D0G · 2026-10-22 14:27 UTC

Aluminium degrades very quickly — so quickly it forms a very thin oxide "rust" layer on the surface as soon as it's exposed to air which protects it from further degradation.

It is also our most recyclable material — maybe apart from water, though smelting it takes a lot of heat so if you want to go completely green you need a renewable energy source powering your recycling plant (many do).

Even if you would cut amunium into tiny pieces, creating it's analogue of microplastics, it would dissolve — especially in an acidic ground — within a century — fast enough to not be a persistent problem but slowly enough to not harm the water quality much (aluminium ions dissolved in water are toxic, but it doesn't dissolve quickly enough to be harmful). And it will eventually form back rocks like Bauxite we extract it from.

7. u/Massive-Grocery7152 · 2026-10-22 15:10 UTC

Copper is MUCH more recycled

8. u/ComicsAreFun · 2026-10-22 15:59 UTC

Steel has entered the chat

9. u/Owain-X · 2026-10-22 16:17 UTC

Pretty sure really close to ALL gold is recycled (often via toxic means) but nobody is throwing that away and some poor person in a 3rd world country ends up getting cancer recovering any small amounts that initially are disposed of.

10. u/insane_contin · 2026-10-22 17:25 UTC

Especially old steel, from before nuclear weapons. Because steel is made with regular air or pure oxygen from the atmosphere, post-trinity test it has radioactive impurities. And while for 99.9% of stuff that's fine, some sensitive equipment needs pre-atomic steel. Stuff like Geiger counters, particle detectors, and other equipment.

11. u/M1dj37 · 2026-10-22 18:01 UTC

Recycled is frequency, and recyclable is returned material

12. u/UpCDownCLeftCRightC · 2026-10-22 13:38 UTC

Don't let the lobbyists at plastic wrap see your comment.

13. u/thicktimmy · 2026-10-22 13:42 UTC

Oh no, I hear them behind me… AND THEY’RE TACKY!!!

14. u/Enough_Fish739 · 2026-10-22 14:24 UTC

https://giphy.com/gifs/C2DSi40vDPmvK

15. u/educated_liar · 2026-10-22 15:14 UTC

heh. people in college used to do this to their friends' doors during finals week. plastic wrap coated in vaseline.

16. u/VulpesFennekin · 2026-10-22 15:41 UTC

You went to Satan University!

17. u/insane_contin · 2026-10-22 17:26 UTC

They won't be glad to hear it.

18. u/dogs_gt_cats · 2026-10-22 16:11 UTC

The problem is a lot of recyclers won't accept aluminum foil because if it gets any food remnants on it, they claim it can't be recycled. It's absolutely false and asinine, but that's the excuse they use.

Our local recycling center regularly sends out reminders that they won't recycle aluminum foil used for food "because it can't be recycled." We live in a steel city. 80% of the population here knows what slag is. We know that if you melt the aluminum any detritus will turn to carbon and float on the top where it is easy to remove. We know they're just being lazy but for some reason we tolerate it. So all of the aluminum goes into the landfill.

19. u/king-of-nothing · 2026-10-22 14:43 UTC

When you use aluminum foil to cook some meat in the oven, the aluminum foil is almost always thrown away in the garbage afterwards especially with all the grease left on it. It is only aluminum cans that gets recycled.

20. u/CaptInsane · 2026-10-22 15:47 UTC

Yeah, but you probably don't need a lot of oil to make aluminum foil. Hence why her aunt who works for an oil company doesn't want her using the foil