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> Although plastic cannot be endlessly recycled, the manufacturing process is less energy-intensive, as there is a lower melting point for plastics compared wit
by olejorgenb 3y ago
> Although plastic cannot be endlessly recycled, the manufacturing process is less energy-intensive, as there is a lower melting point for plastics compared with glass.
And a glass container is probably 10-100x as heavy as an equivalent plastic container.
> Even though glass containers can be reused an average of 12-20 times, glass is often treated as single-use.
In Norway soda-bottles where reused before, but it's many years since this practice stopped. I can not think of a single commonly used consumer glass container which is reused.
I would think a container could be reused alot more the 12-20 times though. Or is breakage during transportation and handling common enough to compress this number?
- more_corn 3y agoMason jars (pasta sauce) are regularly reused. And glass is actually recyclable. Plastic is all shipped overseas and most of it is not recycled at all.