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Glass is a terrible idea because of litter. The beaches around here used to be unusable because of the amount of glass in the sand. Nothing like a kiddo screami
by brohoolio 4y ago
Glass is a terrible idea because of litter. The beaches around here used to be unusable because of the amount of glass in the sand. Nothing like a kiddo screaming because of a chunk of glass in their foot to make you change your mind.
Higher deposit for plastic sounds good to me.
- slimsag 4y agoPeople also seem to forget glass bottles are very energy intensive to produce and recycle, 3.69 MJ for glass and only 0.21 MJ for a PET bottle. The real answer is in giving people clean drinking water at the tap IMO, so many people use bottled water exclusively.
- _vdpp 4y agoWith some exceptions (e.g. Flint, MI) tap water is very clean already, cleaner than a lot of bottled water in some cases.
- slimsag 4y agoyep - but that doesn't do much good if people overwhelmingly /think/ otherwise.
- rogerclark 4y agoHave you ever had tap water from San Jose, Los Angeles, or Las Vegas?
- speed_spread 4y agoMaybe we should also stop building cities in arid regions, expecting that remote water resources will keep feeding them.
- _vdpp 4y agoVegas, yes. What was wrong with it?
- thereisnospork 4y agoNot to mention transportation energy. Glass bottles are ~40-50x heavier than plastic and plastic lined aluminum cans. At ~180 Billion cans per year that fuel usage adds up. It's not an accident or malevolence that plastic is so widely used, it is efficiency.
- mkiwala 4y agoFunny how bottles don’t break as much when they’re worth money intact