Reports that Capri Sun is phasing out pouches for bottles is ruining childhoods everywhere: 'Should be ILLEGAL'
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    • mipadaitu@lemmy.worldEnglish
      131·
      2 months ago

      It’s more that it’s heavier, so you have to transport a lot more weight for the same amount of product.

      Secondary to that, glass can’t be shaped as compactly as an aluminum can or plastic bottle, so it takes up more room for the same amount of product.

      There’s no perfect solution, which is why we have a lot of options.

        • MeThisGuy@feddit.nl
          72·
          2 months ago

          I dunno. it takes a lot more heat to melt and recycle some glass that plastic. that and the transport weight is a whole lot of extra environmental cost.
          and the whole separating by color thing in the recycling bins. best bet is to reuse the bottles for the same beverage by rinsing them back at the original bottling plant but that is a logistics nightmare

          • isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de
            21·
            2 months ago

            it’s not a logistics nightmare, we used to do that until plastic gave us the idea of single use containers, many restaurants still do it with larger 1L bottles

            also, while yes glass does have a really high melting point, most plastics never get recycled and instead get burnt, releasing a lot of toxic chemicals in the air (and even if they weren’t, you can only recycle some types of plastics, and even if you did, new objects can be made only by some percentage of recycled plastic, and never 100%)

          • el_abuelo@programming.dev
            2·
            2 months ago

            Aren’t they as equally unrecycleable as plastic?

            I can’t even put them in my recycling bin…which is where the glass and plastic goes.