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bmcnett on August 28, 2008 - 12:31am

It seems like you're saying that, because fossil energy is cheap, water is kinda expensive, and human attention is very expensive, it's cheaper to use lots of energy to mash glass up and melt it on a large scale.

In the near future we expect fossil energy to be very expensive, water to be kinda expensive, and human attention to be cheap. So, it should become cheaper to use lots of human attention to wash glass and reuse it without mashing and melting.

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pondlife on August 28, 2008 - 3:19am

You are 100% correct.

The excuses always go: We have different shaped bottles, different types of plastic etc.......

Why?? There is no reason retail products need anything except standardised containers, plastic formulations etc [anyone guess why homebrew beer barrels have wide diameter screw tops..?]

Ban Marketing, and everything will go back to brown paper and cardboard packaging.

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Termoil on August 28, 2008 - 9:03am

So, it should become cheaper to use lots of human attention to wash glass and reuse it without mashing and melting.

Along with the human attention to wash out the glasses, will come the human attention to grow, proces and cook the stuff that goes in them at the household level.

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