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Glass is in no way environmentally friendly. It takes a huge amount of energy to produce glass, and a singel glass bottle requires a lot of it. PET bottle recyc
by 7734128 3y ago
Glass is in no way environmentally friendly. It takes a huge amount of energy to produce glass, and a singel glass bottle requires a lot of it. PET bottle recycling is the closest we got to a functional plastic recycling system.
- ffgjgf1 3y agoNo micro plastics though which is quite nice.
- badcppdev 3y agoPeople used to (and still kind of do) worry about glass chipping... ironically we can see that and deal with it. Unlike micro-plastics. Human nature right?
- formerly_proven 3y agoGlass is also very heavy, which means that transporting glass-packaged goods requires much more energy than transporting e.g. plastic bottles.
- morsch 3y agoThough transporting stuff large distances requires a lot of energy either way.
- thlr 3y agoThe difference is that glass bottles were consigned and re-used. Also energy use does not tell the whole story and one should consider the impact of plastic that is not recycled or worse, left adrift in the sea or in our rivers. You make a good point and it can be interesting to know how many use of a bottle are required until it becomes more energy-efficient compared to disposable plastic, etc. The shift to the all plastic packaging paradigm was made when companies found out that they could simply let the consumers deal with the packaging once the product was consumed instead of having to get it back from their hands and process it. Hence the modern plastic dystopia.