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i like to walk barefeet, so i worry about glass pollution all the time

"we can't require eco-friendly alternatives to plastics because people litter" was not on my bingo sheet for today...

thoughts and prayers for your bingo, but i consider myself part of the environment and thus object to suffering from more externalities of a technology that i consider partyly inferior (glass bottles are a lot heavier).

the argument that glass is better in terms of decomposition when littered stands, but does not tell the whole story. (not unlike guns are good for self defense but the externalities paint a totally different picture)

when you choose to deliberately expose yourself to vulnerability and walk barefoot, you take that responsibility onto yourself and can't blame others for what you stand on. the same would be true in nature

Presumably, you have eyes, and can easily avoid glass pollution. That's what I do when I go around barefoot. I've stepped in/on all kinds of nasty shit, but never on anything sharp.

If you don't have functioning eyes, I apologize, and imagine being blind and barefoot is a tricky combination.

Man, we’ve got to chill with the condescension on here (often guilty of it myself because I too am a stinker). Every time I’ve stepped on glass, it was a tiny sliver I couldn’t see which is why I stepped on it.

thanks for beeing the voice of reason.

all i wanted to say is that glass bottles are no silver bullet because they also have negative consequences.

What about sharp rocks? We need to send somebody around with a file to sand off the pointy edges

A battalion of sidewalk sweepers. With organic fiber brooms, of course.

They tend to neither cut me nor embed themselves in me. Glass "conspires" to remain hidden in or on substances until the damage has been done.

Stainless steel containers are less likely to produce this scenario when dropped. (-:

Although…they may need some MagicEraser equivalent or a suitable soak to remove latent flavours and odors. /-:

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