And you can't drop them, you can't crush them to make them take up less space in the rubbish... they are objectively worse in all regards I can think of
Imagine how bloody annoying it would be if we had to bring a bag full of empty glass bottles to the supermarket every time we wanted them refilled. Thank God for plastic
i do this and it is not as annoying as you're making it out to be. you get used to the process and, as a reward, you and your fellow earth inhabitants don't have to deal with all of the waste later.
Yeah but this doesn’t scale. Like, there’s an assumption in these conversations that okay — glass bottles are better, but does that mean that now I’m going to hold on to and reuse every single glass bottle I ever receive from now on? Realistically? Then extend that to everything you use.
I can imagine ending up with a house full of glass bottles. Where does it reasonably stop for the individual?
The conversation also highlights that our intuitions about what the most environmentally friendly thing is can’t be trusted.