I thought there’s been at least one baby born to a trans man.
So many of these things could easily be replaced by their much older glass counterparts. That sounds great to me, even if it costs marginally more.
Need to add buying a garbage bag to throw it all out in…
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Glass as alternative has downsides too. Extra weight, greater fragility, high energy costs, and less recyclability than you’d expect. It does have higher reuse potential. Both glass and plastic suffer from people’s behavior in treating them as disposable.
When I was a kid, glass bottles had a deposit. Some people still trashed them anyway, but then others voluntarily cleaned them up.
I am aware some states still have bottle and can deposits
Agree glass recycling is not commercially viable. I was thinking about reuse like we used to do.
Please tell me you’re joking. Glass manufacturing takes orders of magnitude more energy than plastic.
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Sure it does. I’m talking reuse, not disposable.
We have food stores here where you have to bring your own container. Everything that can be is in bins.
But that’s for recycling. In the olden days glass soda bottles were washed and re-used by the manufacturers. Reusing is OODLES more environmentally friendly than recycling, but it does have downsides.
(I recall my mother bringing home a pack of bottled Coca Cola and one of the bottles contained a cigarette butt that snuck through all of the cleaning and quality checks.)
I remember sometimes you’d get a Coca Cola bottle where you could see that it had originally been Pepsi and they washed off the Pepsi logo as best they could and painted over it with the Coca Cola logo.
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Probably a common practice in Atlanta.
I do remember reusable bottles, but I don’t remember seeing this. Sometimes we’d walk along the road looking for bottles, and usually found enough that by the time we got to the convenience store to redeem the deposit we had enough money to get some snacks or candy.
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Beer out of those brown reusable bottles are a fond memory. I remember the switch over from those thick glass bottles with scratched up sides from the processing machines to thin walled throw away bottles. The old bottles had heft and felt good in your hand. Even though by today’s standards the beer was cheap domestic swill the bottle gave it substance.
You are older than I thought to also remember that! 