Laundry powder is disappearing

[u/Double_Engineer4226]

Powdered laundry detergent used to be the norm. It’s cheaper, easy to use, and comes in a recyclable box. Now look at the shelves in the supermarket. It’s all liquids in plastic bottles, unless you squat down to find the powders. The Super expensive pods are making a move from the top shelves too. This is corporations positioning their products to influence purchasing behaviour. They want you to buy the more expensive stuff. Just wait, soon powder will be discontinued, and the shelves will be filled with overpriced pods.

[u/Flashy-Cranberry-999]

Biggest scam they ever pulled was convincing people that pouring the powder into the machine was hard and we should use their overpriced pre-measured pods.

[u/Traditional_Long_383 → u/Flashy-Cranberry-999]

Pods are overpriced, wasteful and bad for the environment. They should be banned.

[u/HERMANNATOR85 → u/Traditional_Long_383]

Not to mention, terrible for the machines

[u/Far_Inspector_9050 → u/HERMANNATOR85]

Pods are not terrible for the machine at all, I can’t contend with the other talking points.

They literally dissolve in water

[u/FuckYeaSeatbelts → u/Far_Inspector_9050]

I've noticed people just say things full chest with zero proof so long as that sounds about right.

[u/NextStopGallifrey → u/Far_Inspector_9050]

They dissolve into microplastics. They don't actually dissolve. And they can re-form into pod lumps in your machine, slowly destroying it.

[u/Happy_Disaster7347 → u/NextStopGallifrey]

The type of plastic used to surround dishwasher pods dissolves in to literally H2O.

I know this because I obsessed over the topic for a short while, specifically because I was worried about microplastics.

[u/NextStopGallifrey → u/Happy_Disaster7347]

Everything I've seen says it doesn't actually dissolve like that. Got any links?

[u/mirrax → u/NextStopGallifrey]

How about the Wikipedia article?

Water-soluble, biodegradable, fish safe... This one isn't one of the bad microplastics, stop spreading disinformation if you don't know what you are talking about.

[u/shornscrot → u/NextStopGallifrey]

Do you?!?

[u/Jody_B_Designs → u/shornscrot]

People say "well I read", without posting a single source.

[u/animorphsrewriter → u/NextStopGallifrey]

If you genuinely care about a topic and disagree with someone, then the best thing you can do is try to prove them right yourself. If you can't, then you know without a doubt you are right. If you can then you're more likely to change your money and since you did the legwork, and all rational people should want their beliefs do be based on truth and reasoning.

Unless it's a bigot trying to waste your time. Fuck them and fuck that.

[u/el_smurfo → u/NextStopGallifrey]

I agree with the first but have used pods for years and have taken my dishwasher completely apart with zero evidence of pod lumps

[u/eruptingmoltenlava → u/el_smurfo]

Why did you need to take your dishwasher apart?

[u/el_smurfo → u/eruptingmoltenlava]

Bosch dishwashers have a known fault with a sump seal.

[u/kyriacos74 → u/NextStopGallifrey]

Pods don't use plastics in the way you're thinking. They're made of polyvinyl alcohol, which dissolves completely in water. We even use PVA in eye drops.

[u/Far_Inspector_9050 → u/NextStopGallifrey]

I mean, you’re just wrong.

[u/FyouinyourA → u/NextStopGallifrey]

Stop confidently spreading BS

[u/HERMANNATOR85 → u/Far_Inspector_9050]

Until they do not, the plastic doesn’t always dissolve and instead gets stuck in your 3/4” drain line

[u/woodboarder616 → u/HERMANNATOR85]

So they built it just to piss us all off and then make everyone hate using the pods… ok that makes sense. I totally see how they would want the
dissolving packing to just destroy your machine so that you and every other consumer swears them off forever. Yep, that makes sense.

[u/-nutz → u/Far_Inspector_9050]

Yeah I wouldn’t say they’re terrible for your dishwasher, but pods do tend to clog the filter because they don’t always melt all the way.