Re:Study: Recycled Lithium Batteries as Good as Newly Mined
by kragen on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @07:14AM
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You're right about that, although for the same reason plastic bottles are usually blow-molded from preforms in or near the bottling plant, to avoid shipping bulky empty bottles around.
Also glass is denser than PET, so 15 times as much mass is really only like 6 times as much volume in the landfill.
One quibble: > Proper disposal of a 500-gram glass bottle uses 15 times as much landfill space as a 30-gram plastic bottle (just as it costs 15 times as much to ship)
It only costs 15x as much to ship if weight is the driving factor in shipping. For a lot of surface shipping methods, dimensional measures govern the shipping prices either entirely or substantially. (No one is flying empty bottles as part of their supply chain.) It might be 2x as much, but it’s not going to be 15x if both pallets of bottles take up the same space.