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Lets see. Two liters of soda weighs about 4 pounds without a bottle. Using the old weight of the 500ml glass bottles which were thick enough to handle the pressure of the carbonation gas, its weight was listed at 460grams. Convert it to 2 liters and it comes out to a little over 4 pounds of glass. So a 2 liter bottle of soda would weigh a little over 8 pounds. A little heavy to try to carry home in any quantity.
Weight (6 lbs) doesn't seem to have made a dent in the sales of champagne in magnum bottles (1.5 liters). Granted most folks aren't lugging home a shopping cart of champagne a week...
However, you can routinely find beer/malt liquor sold in 40 oz glass bottles... and the weight certainly doesn't keep those from flying off the shelf (at relatively low cost as well). Granted, most folks are buying those one-at-time in paper sacks even of they do drink 6 a day.
Weight (6 lbs) doesn't seem to have made a dent in the sales of champagne in magnum bottles (1.5 liters). Granted most folks aren't lugging home a shopping cart of champagne a week...
However, you can routinely find beer/malt liquor sold in 40 oz glass bottles... and the weight certainly doesn't keep those from flying off the shelf (at relatively low cost as well). Granted, most folks are buying those one-at-time in paper sacks even of they do drink 6 a day.
6?
Let's see that would be:
1 for breakfast,
1 for lunch,
1 for supper,
and um,
1 for brunch,
hmm,
1 for lupper,
and . . . . oh I know,
1 for a bed-time snack.
oh yeah.
I smoke two joint in the morning, I smoke two joints before before noon, then I smoke two more just to keep me in tune . . . . I smoke two joints before I smoke two joints . . . . and then I smoke two more.
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On a more serious note . . .
Has anyone ever seen beer or wine in a plastic bottle? I have seen wine in a cardboard box, but I do not think plastic . . . yet.
Actually, I have seen beer in plastic bottles at ball games a few times and sold in convenience stores near public parks and beaches. Can't remember which brand(s) since I don't normally drink beer, but I have seen them. But, no, you don't normally find beer or wine or liquor in plastic at a regular liquor or grocery store (depending on the state) unless it's the really really really cheap stuff or the tiny airplane bottles.
I've seen Ripple and Mad Dog ("fortified" wine) and some wine cooler type bevs in plastic (like Zima), but not "real" wine. Technically, the wine in boxes is in plastic since the interior pouch is Mylar (a metalized plastic polymer); but I've never seen a proper bottle of wine in plastic.
It's not uncommon to see low and mid-grade liquors sold in plastic in the flask/pint sizes or even the low-end liquors sold in plastic 5ths. The pints/flasks are targeting the hunter/camper crowd (at least up here) for portability and better freeze protection. The plastic 5ths seem to be targeting folks who need a lot of cheap booze but don't want to cut themselves on broken glass when they pass out... "unbreakable" is almost always prominently displayed on the bottle or the display rack.
I found some Arizona Green Tea in a glass, bottle, but it was at Walgreens. It brought back some interesting memories of being young. Still, I am finding it rarer to find drinks in glass bottles.
One place you will never see a shift from glass to plastic is home canning. Not a real big item for many, but I do it every year. same with jams and jellies. Of course, I wash and sterilize the bottles and jars, so I know what I have. I don't trust reusable glass pop and beer bottles -- seen too many over the years with things in them ( paper, glass shard, etc.).
I would rather buy milk in waxed paper containers and do and now a lot of coffee is even in foiled paper cans -- got some Maxwell House that way, not in tin can nor plastic.
Am I doing it for eco/green reasons? nope, it tastes better.
One place you will never see a shift from glass to plastic is home canning. Not a real big item for many, but I do it every year. same with jams and jellies. Of course, I wash and sterilize the bottles and jars, so I know what I have. I don't trust reusable glass pop and beer bottles -- seen too many over the years with things in them ( paper, glass shard, etc.).
I would rather buy milk in waxed paper containers and do and now a lot of coffee is even in foiled paper cans -- got some Maxwell House that way, not in tin can nor plastic.
Am I doing it for eco/green reasons? nope, it tastes better.
Glass bottles, it's "sort of" an eco thing for me, but taste is a big reason too. Pop in a glass bottle seems to taste a little better. Anything in glass seems to have a bit more of its original flavor.
I think the reason I still trust glass bottles is because I haven't seen anything in them yet. It could be where you got the bottles too.
To be quite blunt, if you want to avoid plastic bottles, you're going to have to give up the carbinated drinks and get your water from the tap. Very few bottling companies use glass, because it's heavy and it breaks, which makes it difficult and expensive to transport. Make your own ice tea and store it in a fridge in a pitcher and take it on the road in a reusable metal canteen. If you're adventurous, you can make ginger ale in small quantities from scratch to get your daily dose of fizz. Honestly, we'd all be healthier if we stopped drinking that stuff anyway.
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