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I've read accounts from people who were around when glass was widely used, particularly for beverages, who report that broken glass was everywhere, much worse than today.

Just to add to downsides besides energy spent for transportation and other processing.

A cousin cut his wrist falling with a glass half-gallon milk bottle in hand. But in general I don't remember that much in the way of broken glass from my childhood, though pretty much everything bigger than a school-lunch milk carton was glass.

Yes, it will add to transportation costs.

FYI - The EU did a study that found over 90% of paper straws are full of ‘forever chemicals’

we dont use glass bottles anymore because of the increased shipping weight and how fragile glass is. plastic definitely needs to be replaced but going back to glass for most things that need to be shipped just isnt the way we need to go