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>It is obviously better for the environment. Except it isn't and plastic is for many uses the best material. Take glass for example. Cons of Glass: It breaks
by vimy 8y ago
>It is obviously better for the environment.
Except it isn't and plastic is for many uses the best material.
Take glass for example.
Cons of Glass:
It breaks
It costs more to ship
It is more expensive to recycle
Glass takes twice as much energy to produce
More pollution is created in the manufacturing, shipping and recycling of glass
Glass creates more than 6 times the global warming gases than plastic
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Cons of plastic:
Litter (but people throw glass away too)
Some plastics can leach chemicals
Some plastics contain PVCs
- Brakenshire 8y agoUnless I'm missing something, this seems spurious, what makes you think a ban on single use plastic plates, cups, straws, coffee stirrers and cutlery means people will use glass equivalents? Or rather, to make the comparison valid, single use glass equivalents.
- Mirioron 8y agoThey won't. By and large, people will simply do without these products because the equivalents will be too expensive for most people. But he's just trying to explain that if people tried to stay at the same level of quality of life then they'd have to switch to technology that isn't advantageous to the environment.
- kazinator 8y agoGlass is a mineral; the earth's crust is full of practically the same thing. Glass can be reused; sterilizing and re-filling milk bottles is a thing, for instance. Plastic doesn't really recycle; it downcycles. Plastic from higher grade products usually can't be used for the same grade, only for lower-grade stuff. Downcycling is less of a problem for glass.