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49 points

Plastic bottles in general should be illegal. It’s cans, glass bottles, or GTFO when it comes to beverages for me.

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FYI cans have a plastic liner to prevent acidic foods from dissolving the aluminium, so there’s still some plastic in it (much less then fully plastic bottles tho)

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We should really advance to “glass only” for single use containers (unless you have a really good reason to prefer plastic, like if it’s a medical product) and invest in the infrastructure to recycle them - a country can get up to a 99% recycle rate for glass if it puts the work in.

Yes glass is potentially less safe but my gut tells me that the risk of more broken glass is offset by the reduced air pollution and associated health risks.

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It’s more that it’s heavier, so you have to transport a lot more weight for the same amount of product.

Secondary to that, glass can’t be shaped as compactly as an aluminum can or plastic bottle, so it takes up more room for the same amount of product.

There’s no perfect solution, which is why we have a lot of options.

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Ah, but without plastic bottles how would we generate additional profits from the excess waste of oil production?

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Glass has the best taste too, because it is almost totally chemically inert, you don’t get the odd flavor changes that you do with aluminum cans or plastic bottles.

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