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by superchroma 1142 days ago
The difference is that it's infinitely reusable. Heat it up, reshape it, bing bang boom. Plastic can go back to oil via pyrolysis but it's hardly the same.

Glass also doesn't turn into infinite microscopic pollutants that leach chemicals over time and get into the bloodstreams of all living things.

I'd rather have glass and less people to be honest.

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Glass might not be so great. Specially if it is coloured with heavy metals and then ground up. It can then end in lungs and cause diseases...
> Heat it up

That’s kind of the issue here

Well you'll never guess what pyrolysis is...