> 2/3 of the glass collected is turned into new bottles.
It's a seriously dumb process. Take a bottle, crush it, melt it down, and make new bottles. What was wrong with the old bottles?
It's a seriously dumb process. Take a bottle, crush it, melt it down, and make new bottles. What was wrong with the old bottles?
They've almost completely disappeared from the market in favor of aluminum cans and 50cl PET bottles due to consumer preference (lighter weight, less fragile)
Washing the old bottles takes energy, water, and manpower. Making new ones uses less of all three of those, it's as simple as that.