https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_Corporation
Environmental record
The Ball Corporation has made improvements to its environmental record since 2006, when the company began its first formal sustainability efforts.[50] In 2008 the Ball Corporation issued its first sustainability report and began releases subsequent sustainability reports on its website.[45] The first report was an ACCA-Ceres North American Sustainability Awards cowinner of the Best First Time Reporter award in 2009.[51][citation needed]
In the Toxic 100 list for 2004, using data from 2002, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) identified the Ball Corporation as the 59th-largest corporate producer of Air pollution in the United States, with an estimated 4.57 million pounds of toxic air released annually.[52] The PERI report for 2008, using data from 2005, ranked the Ball Corporation 54th on its Toxic 100 list; PERI’s report for 2010, using data from 2006, ranked it 65th.[53] The PERI studies indicated major pollutants included glycol ethers and 1,2,4-trimethylbenzene.[54]
The PERI Toxic 100 Air Polluters list for 2013 ranked the Ball Corporation as 619 in its list of companies producing the most air pollution in the United States.[55] In 2015 Newsweek ranked the Ball Corporation as 70th in their “Green 2015” report, which reviewed the environmental performances of the 500 largest publicly traded companies in the United States.[56][57][58]
Damn, it seems like they’re actually making an effort at improvement.
That’s not really relevant to the post, is it? And that kind of praise on Wikipedia usually comes from the company editing its own Wikipedia page and being very picky about which data they cite.
Gatekeeping on positive news?
I’d say it’s relevant because I certainly didn’t know anything about the company the meme is discussing, and that was a fun fact to see. I especially appreciate the wiki link cuz that’s what I wanted to go to after asking such a head scratcher.
I know the Wikipedia link is relevant, but specifically the except seems totally disconnected to me from the post. It feels inorganic, to the point I almost doubt OP’s motives. Maybe I’m wrong.
Anyway I’m not trying to say any of it is untrue, just that it should be taken with a pinch of salt.
I hope I’m not gatekeeping, but if I’m gatekeeping anything it’s not ‘good news’, it’s what can be posted under a meme post. But as I said, I’m just trying to provide context, I guess it came out pretty gatekeepy so I’ll try to tone that down next time.
Kudos for the well thought out and introspective comment.
It did get me thinking about whether or not these numbers were affected by the purchasing and selling of the various subsidiaries, and if that happened, whether or not it should “count”.
You’re right, we should discourage any efforts to improve anything because they’re not immediately perfect.
Not what I said at all
Me: Man, that’s a pretty tasty beer.
Coors: Thanks!
Me: Hey, you don’t happen to know where I can get precision ceramics for aerospace and medical applications do you?
And riots too
Wait until OP learns about the chaebol system or Nintendo
What does Nintendo make that isn’t related to games?
Honestly, I’m pretty sure I was just
drunkwrong when I said Nintendo. I know they started with playing cards and I think I just assumed they dabbled with other stuff but no, I was wrong. I’ll edit my comment
i guess we doin telescopes now
The games introduce the portal gun as a prototype, and aperture falls apart without any indication it was ever anything but
You ain’t seen my balls (YourFavoriteMartian)
Now there’s a throwback holy shit
The weird thing is, they don’t actually sell the jars anymore. “Ball jars” are not made by the ball jar corporation after their antitrust lawsuits for being a fucking jar monopoly. So they sold the “ball jar” rights and now only do aluminum cans for food packaging and high end satellites and satellite launch systems.
On December 11, 1939, the U.S. Government sued the Ball Brothers, the Hazel-Atlas Glass Co., and the Owens-Illinois Glass Co. under monopoly charges based on the Hartford-Empire and Owens licensing agreements. The plaintiff claimed that small producers were being frozen out of business or prohibited from entering manufacture by the nature of the licenses. Almost a decade later, in 1947, the justices rendered a final verdict. The court prohibited the Ball Brothers from purchasing or otherwise controlling any other businesses engaged in the same manufacturing processes – in other words, the small jar producers. In addition, Ball had to divest itself of the Three Rivers Glass Co. (already closed for almost a decade) that Ball had acquired in 1936. Ball sold the property
Came here to say this.
now only do aluminum cans for :
- food packaging
- high end satellites
- satellite launch systems.
I find this interpretation funny
Aluminum cylinders only.
Not aluminum? Not interested. Not a cylinder? Not a chance.
Squared off glass cylinder? Legally prohibited.
Transparent aluminum? Believe it or not, jail.
Galaxy watch 5 users start to worry.
Most advanced cans in the airspace industry
those 🕘 sweet 🕞sweet🕞 cans🕓
No monopoly lawsuits in space
The year is 3506. The Deimos Corporation has expanded into Phobos, Luna, and all the other moons of the solar system.
Making it… A moonopoly.
Well they don’t produce can’ts
oh thats good to know. i’ve got a few satellites lying around that i’ve been meaning to launch
why is the government beefing with mason jar companies and not multi-billionaires
So, at the time (1930) ball jar actually would have qualified as big business in the sense that you mean.
Home canning was very popular and they consistently bought out smaller companies.
Since they were privately owned, it’s tricky to find specifics about value, but they were “found a university”, “own a company town or two”, “chairman of the federal reserve” levels of rich.So actually a pretty good use of government.
They don’t even do aerospace anymore. Ball Aerospace & Technologies was bought by BAE Systems earlier this year.
BAE caught them slipping, huh?
Well then what would you say you do here
Let me tell you. bob.
I wasn’t aware of the jar monopoly situation. Maybe my old Balls will become collectible someday.
They really had that industry….by the Balls.
Sopresa
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I do love me some specific unicode characters
Me: pour me a guiness, please
Bartender: here you go mate
Me: by any chance do you know where I can get a record of the world’s longest mustache
Bartender: well you won’t believe this…
Me: Another Guinness please
Bartender: Here you go
Me: urgh what is this?
Bartender: A Stout. Why, is it bad quality?
Me: It seems so. Don’t you have a way of testing this beforehand?
Bartender: Now that you mention it…Me: Get me some Michelin tires, please
Mechanic: Here you go mate
Me: by any chance do you know where I can get a detailed guide of the finest restaurants in the country?
Mechanic: well you won’t belive this…
I need a pepper mill from the company that invented it Peugeot: I got you, buddy I also need a shitty car that breaks down all the time Peugeot: You’re not gonna believe this
I don’t care what you say; any car good enough for Columbo is good enough for me.
You’re not going to believe this but Ball made all of the mirror … except the mirror itself.
Ball outsourced the optics, not really their specialty. Also made of toxic beryllium so preferable not to machine in-house!
That’s almost as good as Aperture Science selling shower curtains and multidimensional portal devices.
BIC sells ball point pens, lighters, razor blades, and surfboards.
Had no idea about the surf boards, goofy AF.
Well, I don’t think they ever actually sold any of the portal guns…
Is that because nobody would buy them or because Aperture fell to ruin before they could put it on the market? 🤔
They were too expensive! The Device was more valuable than the organs and combined incomes of everyone in [subject hometown here].
They wanted to sell the multidimensional portal device as a shower curtain.
They do what they must because they can.
