sick and tired of food and beverages switching to plastic

[Anonymous]

I feel like this is getting worse and worse, not better.

Snapple. Nantucket Nectars. I buy VERY few bottled drinks, but when I do, these were staples on the road because they came in GLASS.

Now I see more and more juices at the grocery store in plastic. More and more salad dressings and sauces changing to plastic. Even LIQUOR bottles, which I never buy but see when I get my wine is starting to switch to plastic.

All this at a time when research shows just how bad plastics are for us.

I've been tracking this research on and off for decades. When BPA was identified as a problem bad enough to be addressed publicly, there was all this BPA free plastic on the market all of a sudden, with no proof that it was safer, until later evidence showed that in fact it was not safer and in some cases was worse.

How long before all the winemakers start bottling in plastic?

[Anonymous]

As far as wine goes, if you’re okay with the quality of plastic bottled wine, may as well by wine in a box. Good wine will always come in a glass bottle. But, yeah, it’s criminal. Stop buying bales of plastic packaged food and single serve drinks at Costco.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As far as wine goes, if you’re okay with the quality of plastic bottled wine, may as well by wine in a box. Good wine will always come in a glass bottle. But, yeah, it’s criminal. Stop buying bales of plastic packaged food and single serve drinks at Costco.

OP here, I dont drink box wine for the same reason. Nor the little single serve aluminum bottled mini wines like apothic red. It's all variations on the same problem.

[Anonymous]

I hate the move to plastic as well OP. I miss condiments in actual glass jars and try to buy them as much as I can.

[Anonymous]

I see that too! Not sure what we can do about it other than at a small scale level. I also read that sometimes it costs more money and time to recycle the materials that we turn in so they don't bother to do it.

It's cheaper for them to switch to plastic. Now if they get the jars back after they sell them, it may be doable.
Glass is heavy too so that means they need sturdier crates, pallets and everything else. Then, when the glass drops, it can break. And if the entire pallet drops, there goes all the glass jars. And logistically, when you are transporting these, the truck/ship might charge you buy weight so glass will cost alot!
And in some schools, they prefer you use plastic and other types of containers instead of glass.

And if they raise the price cause the cost of glass is increasing too much, customers are just going to complain.

[Anonymous]

Glass is not easy to recycle. Some parts of NoVA no longer accept it in weeklky recyclign. It breaks too easily.

Plastic containers are easily recycled. They use them to make park benches and decks adn stuff like that. It get ground up into plastic "flakes" then bonded.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Glass is not easy to recycle. Some parts of NoVA no longer accept it in weeklky recyclign. It breaks too easily.

Plastic containers are easily recycled. They use them to make park benches and decks adn stuff like that. It get ground up into plastic "flakes" then bonded.

You're fooling yourself if you think plastic bottles get recycled. The rate is less than 30%.

[Anonymous]

Came here just to share Snapple glass-to-plastic sadness

-- person who remembers the 1990s

[Anonymous]

It's truly horrendous, OP. I go to While Foods and try not to buy too much plastic. Vote with my wallet.

Also, think about your beauty products. Lots of plastic packaging. Consider bar soaps, bar or cream shampoos to reduce delivery space, or the rare glass bottle.

[Anonymous]

Glass costs more to transport.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Glass costs more to transport.

Which do you care about more - carbon or plastic? Because that's the trade off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Glass is not easy to recycle. Some parts of NoVA no longer accept it in weeklky recyclign. It breaks too easily.

Plastic containers are easily recycled. They use them to make park benches and decks adn stuff like that. It get ground up into plastic "flakes" then bonded.

You're fooling yourself if you think plastic bottles get recycled. The rate is less than 30%.

That's better than 0 for glass containers. For example Arlington no longer picks up glass containers in recycling, you have to drop it off at one of 5 locations:

https://www.arlingtonva.us/Government/Programs/Recycling-and-Trash/Residential/Curbside-Recycling-Trash/Glass-Recycling

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
That's better than 0 for glass containers. For example Arlington no longer picks up glass containers in recycling, you have to drop it off at one of 5 locations:

https://www.arlingtonva.us/Government/Programs/Recycling-and-Trash/Residential/Curbside-Recycling-Trash/Glass-Recycling

And if you're congratulating yourself on recycling your glass and plastics but not making an effort to buy things makes with recycled products, guess what? You're not really helping.

[Anonymous]

I don't like plastic either but glass is very difficult to recycle. The best bet is to buy recycled plastic and re-use the glass at home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't like plastic either but glass is very difficult to recycle. The best bet is to buy recycled plastic and re-use the glass at home.

I hate buying things in small glass because I know even if I rinse and recycle it’s not going to be, and it’s so much glass and caps compared to the product. Would love just big bins of things like the old general store. If only stuff didn’t go bad or get contaminated.

But very few consumers caring will not convince profit motivated companies with uncaring consumers