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> Reusing the containers will save more material and energy than fashioning new ones each time—even with all the additional shipping. I 100% do not believe thi

• wffurr 8y ago
  Show me the analysis. Open up the data and code. Otherwise, I don't 100% have any idea.
• jessaustin 8y ago
  Don't just think of shipping the container back to the bottling plant. Think of producing raw materials, then shipping the raw materials to the refinery, the refined materials to the container factory, and the new containers to the bottling plant. Roughly, this seems like x < x + y + z + w, which should be uncontroversial.
  • empath75 8y ago
    They don’t ship that stuff one container at a time.
  • Grue3 8y ago
    This completely ignores the economy of scale. The process of supplying containers to the factory is highly efficient, which is why only a little fraction of price you pay for the product corresponds to the container. You're replacing this with containers each being shipped on their own airplane and the postal service having to personally process each and every one (and do containers themselves need a box to ship them in?). And that's ignoring the fact that Loop container is much heavier than a typical plastic container which makes shipping it even more expensive.