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I feel a sense of dread every time I find myself holding an empty plastic container.

Niche thing to break out given the context, but the best purchase I've made in the past decade is a SodaStream, a couple of extra carbonating bottles and an inline water filter for the kitchen sink.

I didn't realize how much of my aggregate shopping mass came from paying usurious prices to have water from somewhere else delivered via fossil fuel to a store so I could pick each bottle up once from the shelf, again from my cart to checkout, again to get it back in the cart, again to put it in the vehicle, again from the vehicle to the pile outside the front door, again to bring it inside for final staging, again to put it in the fridge, and finally, again, to drink it. And 99 cents for the privilege.

(It's now two cents a litre thanks to a 10-pound tank + adapter.)

Being easier on the planet can save time, money and effort, even though it looks somehow less convenient on the surface.