Comments by "Mat Broomfield" (@matbroomfield) on "Why the Glass Bottle FAILED" video.

@jacobesterson Yes, a good post, especially the comment about cans. Of course, when did the lives of their customers or the future welbeing of the planet EVER matter to corporations? Just ask the tobacco and oil companies
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We didn't choose the convenience of plastic. Glass is more fragile, more expensive, heavier to ship, and sand is a limited resource. There are plenty of extremely good reasons to choose plastic. And some disadvantages.
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@bobbirdsong6825 No, the cost of shipping is not mere convenience - it can literally be a make or break factor. Your argument is like saying making a car our of stainless steel rather than aluminium or fibreglass is just convenience. Not, it's a fundamental property that affects its performance, handling, safety and usability.
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@bobbirdsong6825 The video specifically said that not all glass can be recycled because it's considered contaminated, but even if it can be, it is still more expensive transport, more expensive to recycle, and more fragile. They are tangible factors affecting the viability, not mere convenience. Unless you extend the definition of "convenient" to mean, "Everything that I want to do, regardless of the cost and logistical benefits of doing so."
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@TheUtuber999 With all the oil that is being used, why haven't we run out? Because there was a lot of it. But you can't just use any sand either for glass, or for building. For instance, building sand has to be sharp.
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@bobbirdsong6825 Excellent post. Now would you be willing to pay 25% more for the glass container version of everything delivered in plastic?
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This was just one long "Back in my day..." old person ramble. When I was a teen, I worked at a soda pop distribution warehouse. I once saw a forklift driver drop an entire stack of pallets of glass bottles (maybe 8 palettes high, 16 boxes of 12 or 24 bottles per pallet). Literally every single bottle broke. Nowadays, in the grocery stores of Europe CANNED goods have become massively more expensive thanks in large part to the shipping costs in an economy that is short of fuel and truck drivers. Glass is a pretentious luxury that adds NOTHING to the tastes of 99.99999% of foods, and even with coke, you could decant the drink into a chilled, reusable bottle or flask if it matters that much to you. The greatest argument against plastic, is simply that we don't recycle it so it becomes a pollutant. Well I've cut my feet on more than one beach bottle improperly disposed of too.
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