Reusable glass bottles have their own issues, especially emissions from logistics if they are transported for longer distances.
Cleaning reusable bottles is energy intensive and uses a lot of water and chemicals.
Melting and recycling glass is certainly more resource intensive than doing the same with plastics.
The best solutions to reduce resource intensity is local production and consumers bringing their own containers, going for dried instead of canned when it comes to fruits, beans and the like…
The chances of first-worlders putting up with packaging and preserved food habits that are essentially post-collapse “The Last of Us” levels of mild inconvenience: about -100% if such a ratio is possible.
“Ya’ll telling me I gotta feed mah kids dried beans? How da fuck they gonna eat dried beans? they too crunchy!” will be the viral soundbite from a Kansas parking lot.
Capital won’t allow change until it can no longer bleed a dime in it’s present state. We’re living under a locust plague and we’ve called it the modern world.
Reusable glass bottles have their own issues, especially emissions from logistics if they are transported for longer distances.
Cleaning reusable bottles is energy intensive and uses a lot of water and chemicals. Melting and recycling glass is certainly more resource intensive than doing the same with plastics.
The best solutions to reduce resource intensity is local production and consumers bringing their own containers, going for dried instead of canned when it comes to fruits, beans and the like…
The chances of first-worlders putting up with packaging and preserved food habits that are essentially post-collapse “The Last of Us” levels of mild inconvenience: about -100% if such a ratio is possible.
“Ya’ll telling me I gotta feed mah kids dried beans? How da fuck they gonna eat dried beans? they too crunchy!” will be the viral soundbite from a Kansas parking lot.
Capital won’t allow change until it can no longer bleed a dime in it’s present state. We’re living under a locust plague and we’ve called it the modern world.