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Not only does re-use take large amounts of water in the cleaning of containers, but glass is orders or magnitude more expensive to ship product in. You're shipp
by justanotherc 7y ago
Not only does re-use take large amounts of water in the cleaning of containers, but glass is orders or magnitude more expensive to ship product in. You're shipping a ton of glass around when you could be using that weight to ship product. It drives up cost and increases fuel burn.
It is not that simple. Unfortunately.
- Symbiote 7y agoThen refill plastic bottles, as is common in Germany.
- ssivark 7y ago> glass is orders or magnitude more expensive to ship product in That sounds like nonsense. For a filled ~300ml container of soda, a glass bottle would be ~20% (ballpark) heavier than an aluminum can. Even if shipping costs increased by a similar proportion (actually less, but whatever) and we include the cost of cleaning bottles, it seems we would still end up ahead compared to the song-and-dance of recycling, which is incredibly resource intensive.
- justanotherc 7y agoNot only weight, but due to the breakable nature of glass you also need more protective packaging, and you still get more breakage than plastic, which drives cost up even more due to lost product. With plastic, throw some shrinkwrap on them and you're good to go.
- LadyCailin 7y agoI’m not concerned about price for non essential items like soft drinks. Having a functioning ecosystem is far more important than whether or not you have to pay an extra dollar for your coke.
- wdb 7y agoCan’t you recycle the water?