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It takes a lot of gas to 1. get glass to a recycler and 2. Ship that recycled material to bottlers, stores, etc. It's not really a panacea for that reason.
by CephalopodMD 5y ago
It takes a lot of gas to 1. get glass to a recycler and 2. Ship that recycled material to bottlers, stores, etc. It's not really a panacea for that reason.
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- hinkley 5y agoWhen I was a child you exchanged the coke bottles at the grocery store. This decreases the footprint of the glass because you were going to the store anyway. If the distributor also transports the empties back on the same vehicle, then the footprint is mostly down to the production side - a bottle of Coke costs what a bottle Coke costs.
- stormbrew 5y agoA heavy truck uses more gas than a light one. It's never free to move heavy things around, it's just another externality. There's certainly some economy of scale to having the grocery store do the moving instead of individually owned cars doing 'small' (on an industrial scale) runs to depots, but it's really pretty hard to account for.
- agileAlligator 5y agoStill a helluvalot better than just burying that glass in landfills. Requires gas to get it there as well, yaknow.