Originally Posted by
NitroPye
My grandmother was talking about the throw away culture shift that happened to them when bleach and other house hold chemicals stopped coming in glass jars but instead plastic. She said they boycotted every company that did that until there were no more places to get glass bottles for those products anymore.
Not to swerve off-topic (I replied to Andrea in the other Brooks thread) but Grandma ain't seeing the big picture at times.
1 Plastic is much lighter, less cost to transport
2 Plastic doesn't shatter when the container is dropped
3 Plastic bottles require less energy overall to manufacture / recycle
Sometime disposable is actually better, assuming we can harness the waste stream and recover that which can be recycled.
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