Why the Glass Bottle FAILED

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  @LeviHildebrandYT · 2 years ago · pinned

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• KI

  @kingpotato3475 · 2 years ago (edited)

  glasss bottles just look better than plastic idk how they died

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• WI

  @willyjoerockhead · 2 years ago (edited)

  Back in the 70&apos;s we used to always get 10 cents back from each bottle at the 7-11.

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• TE

  @techcafe0 · 2 years ago

  a primary reason for the switch from glass to plastic bottles was shipping weight: plastic weighs a lot less than glass, lowering the manufacturer&apos;s shipping costs

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• AR

  @armorbearer9702 · 1 year ago

  (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n15VAcpuAI&amp;t=177">2:57</a>) It is interesting that Americans had trouble returning glass bottles back in the day. I suppose this shows that people like convenience even back in the old days.

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• JU

  @Justachamp772 · 2 years ago

  1. They feel better (Expensive)<br>2. They taste better<br>3. No micro plastics problem (Healthy)<br>4. Reusable<br>5. Better for the environment<br>I love European stuff and those laws for apple too is true

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• CT

  @cturdo · 2 years ago (edited)

  Glass bottles (and aluminum cans) were almost self-collecting due to their deposit. We&apos;ve decided as a culture that plastic is easy to discard and now we know that plastic recycling is not actually happening as promised. No practical incentive to clean it up. Less than 10% of plastic by volume can be recovered, and it is usually just dumped into the landfills by local governments who mandate recycling pickup.

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• AL

  @alxndrmzksm8387 · 2 years ago

  Here in the Philippines, glass bottles exist in equilibrium with plastic bottles for soft drinks, glass bottle drinks sold in local stores are cheaper than plastic

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• SH

  @Shimeih · 1 year ago

  Zimbabwean here. We still have coke glass bottles and plenty. Almost a 1 to 1 with plastic but they are cheaper. You pay a small fee if you are buying without an empty bottle but th great thing is that you can always go back and sell the empty bottle for the same price. As kids we would go around the neighbourhood asking for empty bottles and sell them at the supermarket for snack money.

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• AN

  @angelveda8651 · 2 years ago

  Here at my city in Mexico, buying a glass bottled soda costs like 5 pesos more than plastic, but if you&apos;re also returning another bottle it&apos;s like 10 pesos cheaper than a plastic bottle of the same size, by your 3rd soda you&apos;re already saving 10 pesos a bottle. Also this makes buying a 1lt glass bottle cheaper than a 750ml plastic bottle.

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• TO

  @TobiasDuncan · 2 years ago

  Mexico still has returnable glass bottles for beer in several sizes for each brand. <br>It works so well that it is the cheapest way to buy beer and pretty much every bottle gets returned , usually when you are buying more beer

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• MA

  @mannmanuel7762 · 2 years ago

  German here. we have the Pfand system, where almost all beverage containers have a deposit on them. single use plastic bottles 25 cents, multi use plastic bottles 15 cents, glass containers (from soft drinks, Milk, some yoghurt glasses, ...) 8 cents. and if you buy a crate of bottles (for example 24 Coca Cola Bottles), it´s 3,10€ in total (1,50€ for the crate and 1,60€ (24x0,08€) for the bottles).<br>so if you bring a big bag of empty single use plastic bottles, you can easily get 30 to 40 bucks, for example if your family collects them and you bring them to the supermarket once a month.

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