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> I've heard people say that the environmental cost of producing the clean water necessary to wash bottles for reuse is also harmful. If this is true, wouldn't
by tylerhou 6y ago
> I've heard people say that the environmental cost of producing the clean water necessary to wash bottles for reuse is also harmful.
If this is true, wouldn't it be more environmentally friendly to use disposable plates, bowls, and utensils? That doesn't seem right.
- Someone 6y agoIt sometimes is, at least for packaging. Glass containers may be reusable, but they’re heavier, often a lot heavier (even after decades of technological progress), than plastic containers, and transporting them to consumers and back costs energy and produces waste, too. Also, some plastic packaging decreases food waste. That plastic cucumber packaging, for example, may seem wasteful, but makes them last three times as long and, because of that, decreases the fraction that gets thrown away (https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/features/a-lesson-in-packaging-myths-is-shrink-wrap-on-a-cucumber-really-mindless-waste-8340812.html https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/feat...) Now, individual stickers on bananas and kiwis, those should, IMO, be banned, but what do I know? Maybe they’re an essential part of tracking where fruit comes from (doesn’t look like it from my view, though)