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> never mind the 6 pack of beer bottles he brought! Glass is infinitely recyclable, whereas "disposable vapes" could be referring to just the cartridge (hopefu

> never mind the 6 pack of beer bottles he brought! Glass is infinitely recyclable, whereas "disposable vapes" could be referring to just the cartridge (hopefully) but also could mean the full-fledged single-use vapes with a lithium battery inside. If its the latter, they really should switch to the former. If its the former then I think your friend was being a bit excessive griping about that but a 6 pack of infinitely recyclable glass is hardly a comparison to the perma-trash generated by plastic vape carts. edit: just want to add, those lithium batteries aren't "disposable" because of any innate attribute of the battery, they're only "disposable" because they are sold that way. The batteries could have been reused if the company manufacturing the vape just designed it as such: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsJMj7FtroY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsJMj7FtroY

rank0 4y ago
Most recycling winds up in a landfill. It’s expensive and costs energy. Sometimes we just pay china to put waste into a landfill and call it recycling. There’s also the bottle caps, the packaging, and carbon cost of shipping a MUCH heavier product. There’s gotta be carbon output for growing barley and producing the actual beer too! All so my environmentalist buddy can get drunk. He shouldn’t feel guilty. The point is he’s doing the same thing as the vapers: emitting waste for a fleeting psychoactive effect. The problem of climate change is so far above everyone’s pay grade. People shouldn’t be chastising others for their carbon footprint. It’s silly and impacts nothing. I love my homie but Christ he’s gotta stop playing climate change moral arbiter
- gruez 4y ago
  > Most recycling winds up in a landfill. It’s expensive and costs energy. Sometimes we just pay china to put waste into a landfill and call it recycling. Source for this being applicable to glass? The news sources I've seen say that it's mostly an issue with plastics.
  - wkat4242 4y ago
    Also, glass isn't terribly polluting. It's inert and it will eventually degrade into sand. It'll take a long time but it's not like microplastics that stay in the body. And we've been recycling glass before recycling was a big thing of course.

rank0 4y ago

Most recycling winds up in a landfill. It’s expensive and costs energy. Sometimes we just pay china to put waste into a landfill and call it recycling. There’s also the bottle caps, the packaging, and carbon cost of shipping a MUCH heavier product. There’s gotta be carbon output for growing barley and producing the actual beer too! All so my environmentalist buddy can get drunk. He shouldn’t feel guilty. The point is he’s doing the same thing as the vapers: emitting waste for a fleeting psychoactive effect. The problem of climate change is so far above everyone’s pay grade. People shouldn’t be chastising others for their carbon footprint. It’s silly and impacts nothing. I love my homie but Christ he’s gotta stop playing climate change moral arbiter

gruez 4y ago
> Most recycling winds up in a landfill. It’s expensive and costs energy. Sometimes we just pay china to put waste into a landfill and call it recycling. Source for this being applicable to glass? The news sources I've seen say that it's mostly an issue with plastics.
- wkat4242 4y ago
  Also, glass isn't terribly polluting. It's inert and it will eventually degrade into sand. It'll take a long time but it's not like microplastics that stay in the body. And we've been recycling glass before recycling was a big thing of course.