• @[email protected]
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    21 year ago

    This is part of the issue that a lot of people don’t get.

    Plastics are, largely, petrochemicals. We have plastics because we have oil.

    Use glass because it’s more recyclable? Glass is heavier and more fragile, meaning more cost to ship and more breakage in transit.

    • Chaotic Entropy
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      31 year ago

      Yeah… we use single use plastics because they’re basically an industrial miracle production wise. Dirt cheap, super easy to use, innumerable applications… and all the drawbacks are post-production and someone else’s problem. A tough addiction to break.

    • VeganPizza69 Ⓥ
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      21 year ago

      Use glass because it’s more recyclable? Glass is heavier and more fragile, meaning more cost to ship and more breakage in transit.

      Meaning more local production and collection.

      • Buelldozer
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        11 year ago

        Meaning more local production and collection.

        That is incompatible with global trade.

        • VeganPizza69 Ⓥ
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          11 year ago

          It’s certainly incompatible with multi-national corporations with huge vertical integration. This is what happened with beer, soda and other stuff in many parts of the world.

          I have lived in that World in my part of Eastern Europe, I lived plastic-free… it was the default.