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How about good ol' recyclable and washable and sterilizable glasswares?
by folli 4y ago
How about good ol' recyclable and washable and sterilizable glasswares?
- dottedmag 4y agoSure. These are, 10-100x more expensive per use? Making the medicine available only to top 1% of population sounds like a good deal.
- wongarsu 4y agoHere in Europe water costs a couple cents more in a glass bottle than in a plastic bottle. Is packaging really a major cost driver for medicine?
- dclowd9901 4y agoI'd be willing to bet that glass bottle still has some plastic. Like the seal for the top, or the top itself.
- carlmr 4y agoBut that's still reduces the plastic use to what, 1% of a plastic bottle? 99% savings sounds pretty good to me.
- dclowd9901 4y agoAgreed, but that 1% is very important to the integrity of the bottle. Without it, the bottle might as well be unsealed completely.
- tsol 4y agoIf plastic didn't exist, there would be much more demand for glass and in return a much higher price.
- dividedbyzero 4y agoThey are also heavier, less robust, more rigid, harder to seal tightly (without plastic), and completely impractical for large-ish items like some food items. Plastic-wrapped bananas are craziness, but a huge lot of our amazing level of food safety depends on plastics, so we can expect getting sick from food a lot more in a post-plastic world, like we used to before the advent of almost-free plastic wrappers.
- carlmr 4y agoI don't remember getting sick from food because it was wrapped in paper. And we still don't really know what all the hormone-like substances and microplastics leaching into our food do as a whole.
- sudosysgen 4y ago10-100x more expensive is still cents. When I lived in a third world country plenty of medications were sold in glass.
- Tagbert 4y agoWhat is the CO2 impact of producing glass vs plastic? Of collecting and recycling? Glass has a lot of good properties but it takes a lot of energy to melt the sand and mold into shape.