Originally Posted by sdime
A lawyer told me the reason that glass bottles are not reused anymore is that reused glass bottles occasionally would just shatter in the drinkers' hand and that people were suing.
Way back when I was in High School plastic soda bottles were just coming into use. My class toured a Pepsi bottling plant. At the time they were still processing the reusable glass bottles and the new plastic bottles. We asked about the cost of each and which the company preferred. The manager of the plant told us that the glass bottles cost them more as an initial investment but were far cheaper in the long run because of their reuse. He said that they were being forced to switch to plastic because of strong customer demand.
We are getting what we ask for.