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Like I said I do not know the answers to these questions, I am only describing a possible scenario. Someone would need to research the best solutions. Aluminum

Like I said I do not know the answers to these questions, I am only describing a possible scenario. Someone would need to research the best solutions. Aluminum does use a lot of energy to refine. I have seen 24 ounce aluminum cans for beer though so we could see large American sodas in big cans. Not resealable though. I think if we are willing to commit to building infrastructure, there is a lot to like about washing glass bottles. In at least one of the Nordic countries they require the use of a standard glass bottle with paper labels that wash off. With this, bottles can be returned to the closest bottler even if it’s a different brand. This keeps travel low. If bottling plants are near population centers the carbon cost of bottle transportation can be kept low.

magduf 7y ago
Aluminum uses a lot of energy to refine, but not to recycle AFAIK. Notice that aluminum is easily the most profitable thing for people to recycle; people can collect cans and take them to a recycler and get paid a fair amount of money. The same just isn't true of almost anything else (except probably copper, and of course precious metals). Even steel, which is far more dense, doesn't fetch nearly as much in scrap value. The thing about standard glass bottles sounds pretty good, but I can't imagine that ever being legislated here in the US. It would have to be Federal, and there's no way you'll get Congresspeople from across the country to agree to something like that. It can't be state-based because then it wouldn't work: you wouldn't be able to get the standard bottle adopted even within a single city, because part of the city is in one state and part is in another state or two.