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Re:U.S. generates more plastic trash than any other nation, ... by jhgb on Sunday August 01, 2021 @06:19PM (#28030684)
> With plastic there is trash to deal with, but glass is heavier thus will take more energy to deal with logistically.

My family has been using the same set of glasses for canning for decades.

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Re:U.S. generates more plastic trash than any other nation, ... by scrollaway on Sunday August 01, 2021 @06:48PM (#28030921)
Right but is your family an outlier or an average? Anecdotes are not evidence, and what matters is how everything would pan out in the real world.

When we were using glass jars for everything, it's not like glass jars were not actively being produced. I don't think these are unanswerable questions but i highly doubt it's as simple as "replace plastic with glass". Aluminum may be a better solution, one that doesn't use up a lot of sand, for example.

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Re:U.S. generates more plastic trash than any other nation, ... by jhgb on Sunday August 01, 2021 @07:37PM (#28031300)
> is your family an outlier or an average?

Well, I lived in a socialist country; as a consequence, DIY was the default for obtaining stuff. So quite average I guess.

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