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People 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
by slimsag 4y ago
People 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.