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Transport cost is one factor, but even in countries where glass bottles are sold alongside plastic ones they are unpopular to the end user themselves because of

Transport cost is one factor, but even in countries where glass bottles are sold alongside plastic ones they are unpopular to the end user themselves because of their inconvenience. The common 2kg×6 PET bottles format is too heavy for glass bottles, so you end up paying more for heavier 1.5kgx6 bottles that are going to last you less.

rad_gruchalski 3y ago
Now check the price per litre and ask your decision makers to introduce a deposit system for glass and plastic bottles.
rightbyte 3y ago
Ketchup should be in a jar rather than bottle really. You can't get the ketchup out of glass bottles. Or atleast 5yo me couldn't. And that was about the last time I had those.
- biftek 3y ago
  I never understood why we put condiments in slim/squeeze bottles, I would love to buy a jar of ketchup.
peoplefromibiza 3y ago
> because of their inconvenience IMO it's simply habits no one would buy beer or wine in a plastic bottle, because it feels wrong (and it is if you ask me). Here in Italy nobody in their right mind buys tomato sauce in plastic bottles, our granmas would come to haunt us at night if we did. but we buy water in plastic bottles ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- lupire 3y ago
  Trying to make sense of the world is the surest way to go mad.
- callalex 3y ago
  Boxed wine comes in a plastic container. Beer goes off rather quickly without excellent storage, which is why cheap beer has settled on aluminum cans which preserve well while being cheaper and lighter than glass.
  - peoplefromibiza 3y ago
    > which is why cheap beer has settled on aluminum cans Where I come from beers come almost exclusively in glass bottles for the large ones (66cl), aluminum cans are only used for the small ones (33cl) but you can buy them in glass as well. There is usually no price difference whatsoever For example https://www.amazon.it/Peroni-Italiano-Moderatamente-Gradazione-Alcolica/dp/B07XZHHNHC/ https://www.amazon.it/Peroni-Italiano-Moderatamente-Gradazio... https://www.amazon.it/Peroni-175-Anniversario-Birra-Cassa-dp-B08X2FMV5S/dp/B08X2FMV5S/ https://www.amazon.it/Peroni-175-Anniversario-Birra-Cassa-dp... Many of the cheapest beers are imports, for example Bavaria, that you usually find in aluminum cans in Holland but in glass bottles in Italy. I can't explain why, but for us some things must be bottled in glass or they aren't "good". Tomatoes is another example: you can find cans of tomato pulp or peeled tomatoes, but not the sauce, it always comes in glass bottles (it exists of course, but it's a very weird choice to us).

rad_gruchalski 3y ago

Now check the price per litre and ask your decision makers to introduce a deposit system for glass and plastic bottles.

rightbyte 3y ago

Ketchup should be in a jar rather than bottle really. You can't get the ketchup out of glass bottles. Or atleast 5yo me couldn't. And that was about the last time I had those.

biftek 3y ago
I never understood why we put condiments in slim/squeeze bottles, I would love to buy a jar of ketchup.

peoplefromibiza 3y ago

> because of their inconvenience IMO it's simply habits no one would buy beer or wine in a plastic bottle, because it feels wrong (and it is if you ask me). Here in Italy nobody in their right mind buys tomato sauce in plastic bottles, our granmas would come to haunt us at night if we did. but we buy water in plastic bottles ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

lupire 3y ago
Trying to make sense of the world is the surest way to go mad.
callalex 3y ago
Boxed wine comes in a plastic container. Beer goes off rather quickly without excellent storage, which is why cheap beer has settled on aluminum cans which preserve well while being cheaper and lighter than glass.
- peoplefromibiza 3y ago
  > which is why cheap beer has settled on aluminum cans Where I come from beers come almost exclusively in glass bottles for the large ones (66cl), aluminum cans are only used for the small ones (33cl) but you can buy them in glass as well. There is usually no price difference whatsoever For example https://www.amazon.it/Peroni-Italiano-Moderatamente-Gradazione-Alcolica/dp/B07XZHHNHC/ https://www.amazon.it/Peroni-Italiano-Moderatamente-Gradazio... https://www.amazon.it/Peroni-175-Anniversario-Birra-Cassa-dp-B08X2FMV5S/dp/B08X2FMV5S/ https://www.amazon.it/Peroni-175-Anniversario-Birra-Cassa-dp... Many of the cheapest beers are imports, for example Bavaria, that you usually find in aluminum cans in Holland but in glass bottles in Italy. I can't explain why, but for us some things must be bottled in glass or they aren't "good". Tomatoes is another example: you can find cans of tomato pulp or peeled tomatoes, but not the sauce, it always comes in glass bottles (it exists of course, but it's a very weird choice to us).