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> Glass is god level re-use. Got milk? Got glass splinters and shards in your milk? In my childhood, we did, from commercially re-used glass milk bottles.
by tuatoru 2y ago
> Glass is god level re-use.
Got milk? Got glass splinters and shards in your milk? In my childhood, we did, from commercially re-used glass milk bottles.
- lazide 2y agoA single time or repeatedly? That is a scary failure mode, but seems like proper rinsing (washing out an upside down bottle) should have stopped it. Any idea what happened?
- tuatoru 2y agoThis was commercial milk delivery across a country, several millions of people. "Proper rinsing" is not adequate for commercial operations. High temperature (near boiling) water at fairly high pressure, tens of thousands of bottles in a batch. Metal baskets, mechanical conveyors. I'll let you imagine the failure modes. I lol'ed at the thought of milk bottles being rinsed by hand in a commercial operation. How much do you want your milk to cost?
- lazide 2y agoTurned upside down on a conveyor, and having the insides and outsides blasted by high pressure caustic solution is rinsing properly. And exactly what I was referring to. Glass shards aren’t going to be able to stay inside or on any bottle subjected to that. But if a neighbor shattered at some point when later filled, it could happen I guess. Though that would apply to anything bottled in glass, new or old glass yeah?
- RevEng 2y agoI've never heard of such a thing in a community of two thousand people. Sounds like your local processing plant needed some serious work.