Quote Originally Posted by RLS0812 View Post
It's more "environmentally friendly" to use plastic over glass .
Glass takes a huge amount of energy to melt and form into new glass containers.
I have worked on projects in glass plants IRL - the amount of natural gas it takes to melt glass is ungodly !
Plastic is also lighter and requires far less fossil fuel to transport.
If you do the math, the amount of fossil fuel required to make and ship 1 glass bottle is far greater than the amount of ( fossil fuel + oil ) to make and ship 1 plastic bottle ( of the same volume ) .
Whew boy ... we've been producing about fifteen 55 gallon drums of broken beverage container glass a week this summer.

This morning a semi trailer truck went 40 miles off it's regular route to come and pick up our glass because it was full to overflowing. They were down yesterday to pick up our plastic and aluminum recyclables but neglected to bring us fresh barrels for the glass.

I hate to think of the cost of that extra trip in terms energy use & carbon footprint.