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Maybe if you ignore the weight of contents of the liquid in the bottle. The pacific garbage patch isn't filled with glass bottles. It is, however, filled with

• ch4s3 4y ago
  > Maybe if you ignore the weight of contents of the liquid in the bottle. The liquid has the same weight regardless. The issue is the marginal increase in container mass. This isn't some conspiratorial point, green groups agree. > The pacific garbage patch isn't filled with glass bottles. It is, however, filled with plastic of all shapes, sizes and forms. It mostly isn't filled with drink containers either. The plurality is fishing gear, and the next categories by volume are crates and household containers. Besides, it's trivial to just crush and bury the plastic bottles in a landfill, still coming out ahead of glass on the CO2 front. > Glass bottles don't need BPA and other additives. Maybe not, but you're probably consuming sugar or alcohol out of them anyway, so I'm hardly getting worked up about BPA. > I'm not convinced that plastic bottles are truly better when all externalities are factored in. Shipping glass to be cleaned, then cleaning it, and shipping it again to be refilled spews a ton of CO2. It's obviously worse by miles if you care about climate change. The rest is classic gish gallop.