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I can't tell if this is satire. We used to do exactly this with milk bottles. From [1]: "In 1975, 94% of milk in the UK was in glass bottles, but as of 2012 th
by hervature 5y ago
I can't tell if this is satire. We used to do exactly this with milk bottles. From [1]:
"In 1975, 94% of milk in the UK was in glass bottles, but as of 2012 this number was down to 4%."
The reality is that plastic is so much cheaper that people balk at the cost of recycling exactly like the price of humanely treated chicken eggs even if they want to do the right thing.
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_milk_bottle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_milk_bottle
- blitzar 5y agoProud to say that my milk is in the 4%. Interesting how sometimes progress is a step in the wrong direction, the milk man even had an electric car way back in the day! > balk at the cost of recycling exactly like the price of humanely treated chicken eggs even if they want to do the right thing That is right before they balk at paying the farmer more than 25p a litre to produce the milk they are going to drink.