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I’m glad I read this. I love that there was an attempt to revive the practise, it’s just too bad this wasn’t a viable plastic alternative. Paper is fine for now I guess.
Amphora have been a viable alternative to plastic bottles for ages.
In this case it appears the amount of clay needed would have put an undue strain on the soil, plus the energy required to bake them was prohibitive.
Except baked clay is twice as dense, needs to be 20 times as thick to make a bottle out of, and will shatter if you drop it from chest height
Yes, that’s why it was single use.
Today we tend to use glass, but that’s reusable.
Im not sure if the article is implying that the practice is stopped or declining.
Except that plenty of out-of-cities places are still using glassware and “mutt-ka”/“mitt-ti” along roadsides, villages, etc. Also in India you can request what type of cup you want … “paper-cup”, “copper tumbler” , “brass tumbler”, “metal tumbler”, “mud or earthen cup”
Depends on location, sometimes they will have region-specific or at least paper cups or glassware.
I think the article isn’t clear about the extent they are still used! Would be great to add that in. I first heard of these when Westerners were saying “why don’t we use these instead of styrofoam?!” not considering the resource and disposal concerns that would come with mass quantities of earthenware
Old earthenware is needed as “grog” to create new earthenware so it is still much more recyclable than plastics.
I think in Japan they traditionally still use earthenware and ceramicware in cooking, though maybe not as single-use items.
We need more sustainable and recyclable industries. We generate too much fossil-fuel and petrochemical waste that we are drowning in plastics and pollution.
Yeah, definitely. Just that those recycling approaches need to be planned ahead of time.
