Honestly, shift a lot of the things we use plastic for today to renewables. It's disgusting that glass, a product that's 100% recyclable, and has been with us for centuries has lost ground to plastic.
Everything liquid should come in glass containers from milk and orange juice to paints, liquid fertilizer, and engine oil. Add some bottle/jar standards to eliminate branded containers and most glass jars could take a trip through an autoclave and be as resold good as new.
Anything amorphous should probably also come in glass. Ketchup, mustard, peanut butter, jelly, car wax, shave cream, lotion, toothpaste, grease.
We could legitimately create a ton of new jobs by doing what we did in the 1950s - have people collect empty bottles (from homes or drop-off locations) to take back to a sorting/cleaning facility where they would be sold back to the vendors, or crushed and sold back to the bottle manufacturer.
Also, rolling out the deposit system nationwide on all glass and aluminum could encourage participation, it sucks living in a state with no refund.
it sucks living in a state with no refund.
🤣 Try living in one with one! Surprise! It's just another tax without representation!
Plastic is made from waste oil. Either we turn it to plastic or it goes into a landfill.
Plastic is lighter and doesn't shatter into sharp pieces. Far superior to glass
I agree 100%
I like the idea but you see all the plastic people throws in the street, imagine if there was broken glass all over the place instead
I'm old..... there was never a problem with glass in the streets, for 2 reasons: The deposit required for bottles made them more valuable to turn in, and city cleaning, combined with people not wanting to live in glass, keeps the streets pretty clean.
Higher deposit, that's a good idea
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