A glass stubbie bottle (340mls) & a Aluminium can costs the same to make.
But the Aluminium can can be recycled 12 times for the same cost it cost to make it in the first place.

The glass stubbie weighs 200 grams.
The Aluminium can, 15 grams

The glass stubbie bottle is made from 4 different materials (inc cap )
The Aluminium can, 1 material

The glass stubbie takes up more cargo weight and space & costs more to cool.
The Aluminium can, you can fit twice as much volume of liquid transported as a glass container.

To recycle a glass bottle, collection, seperation, qualification, cleaning, qualification, fill & cap. Inc glass & cleaning substances & heating wastes.
Aluminium. Collection, qualification, cubing press, melt into ingot, process into clean container again @ 1/13th the weight of glass. No waste at all.

To cool a glass container the weight is 540 gms. Vs
Aluminium @ 355 gms. So Aluminium takes 2/3rds of the energy it takes to cool a glass container of liquid.



Aluminium wins ín every instance.