[olejorgenb]

> Although plastic cannot be endlessly recycled, the manufacturing process is less energy-intensive, as there is a lower melting point for plastics compared with glass.

And a glass container is probably 10-100x as heavy as an equivalent plastic container.

> Even though glass containers can be reused an average of 12-20 times, glass is often treated as single-use.

In Norway soda-bottles where reused before, but it's many years since this practice stopped. I can not think of a single commonly used consumer glass container which is reused.

I would think a container could be reused alot more the 12-20 times though. Or is breakage during transportation and handling common enough to compress this number?

[more_corn]

Mason jars (pasta sauce) are regularly reused.

And glass is actually recyclable. Plastic is all shipped overseas and most of it is not recycled at all.