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Cost is often a proxy for energy expenditure, though. That's what I'm getting at. It is not obvious to me that reusing a glass bottle will necessarily decrease
by asdfasgasdgasdg 5y ago
Cost is often a proxy for energy expenditure, though. That's what I'm getting at. It is not obvious to me that reusing a glass bottle will necessarily decrease net energy expenditure.
- vidarh 5y agoThat may be true, which is the reason I specifically only addressed the question of safety, and the fact we have extensive experience with it in real life conditions.
- bbbobbb 5y agoIt could also be that it is a proxy for energy expenditure by the manufacturers though. They have to collect and clean the bottles. Single use plastic get thrown away with the costs being externalised to everybody else.
- asdfasgasdgasdg 5y agoPossibly . . . it would be interesting to have more data on this. Intuitively it seems like reconditioning a glass bottle would cost not insignificant energy and labor, compared to landfilling it. But I would be happy to know.