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Replace with glass and aluminum, with what's left over burn it. That way it has no way of creating any other problems in the future. If you are efficient with burning it you could even capture the greenhouse gasses produced as a result and sequester those.

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As someone who rides a bicycle and hikes, glass bottles are the bane of my existence.

Get reusable plastic ones and decant then.

I think their concern is others’ disposal of the glass on trails.

Edit: though I do dislike the idea of biking with glass bottles, especially in a backpack. A plastic container absorbs impact and can make falls safer. Not so much for a glass container.

I've lost so many tubes from glass fragments. Sometimes the tire even shifts around when going flat and pokes several more holes nearby. Still not as bad as people who throw bottles in the creek though.

Stainless steel is usually a good option - it weighs less than glass and is more robust.

Are aluminum bottles problematic? Sigg makes some great ones.

Aluminum bottles/cans are lined with plastic, to prevent the liquids acquiring a metallic taste. Beer cans are usually lined with BPA - which is bad news for your endocrine system. Sigg bottles have recently moved to a BPA-free lining, but it's still plastic.

In my country, you return glass bottles for re-use for about 15 euro cents. We don't see a lot of shattered glass bottles lying around...

Glass as is too heavy. Penn and Teller did a bull shit on recycling. Only aluminum is good for consumer packaging wrt recycling.

Most aluminum packaging has plastic liner. Which has to be burned away in most cases.

Glass works if you bottle and reuse locally. Unfortunately infrastructure for this is long gone in the US.

It burns away when the metal is melted. Not having glass recycling infrastructure supports p&t's point.

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