[fareesh]

I remember reading somewhere that some bottled product replaced plastic with glass, which weighs more, which led to an increase in trucks required, which led to more of a carbon footprint, which is also bad.

[tonyedgecombe]

This is why a carbon tax makes a lot of sense. Increase the cost of doing the wrong thing and let the market decide.

[therealdrag0]

And a recycling tax. Carbon isn’t the only externality we care about.

[dumpHero2]

I wonder what prevents them from bottling locally? It's cheaper and better for the environment. It feels like industries can always circumvent these one off laws. They should think of a whole framework of laws.

[nickff]

My understanding is that bottling and container manufacturing are fairly localized. Each large city will usually have a set of bottling plants, to reduce transportation cost.

I think it is easy to underestimate how optimized production and distribution are.

[asdff]

Budweiser brews their beer at 12 different regional anchor breweries to optimize distribution. At Ohio State, Natural Light is a local beer.

[Retric]

Orders of magnitude are important. Post consumer recycling involves extra transportation and thus greenhouse emissions. Except the energy savings can more than make up for this.