Re: Winery visit

On 3/29/2025 12:30 PM, Dave Smith wrote:

On 2025-03-29 9:30 a.m., songbird wrote:

Ed P wrote:

 

Glass wine and beer bottles never wear out and they can be recycled and
reused forever. By only using recycled wine and beer bottles, we have
reduced our carbon footprint by a whopping 60%!

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   that's awesome, that is how glass should be reused and not
broken up and then made back into glass again (even if it does
help reduce the energy needed it still is a waste to break up
a good bottle only to remelt and reform it).

  It takes a lot of energy to transport empties and then clean and sterilize them. It's not even that economical to melt them down and make new bottles from the old glass. The main ingredient in glass is sand and there is no shortage of that anywhere.

True, but the glass companies like to mix in glass too for a better product and easier to process.  There was a glass factory about 10 miles south of us and they loved getting in the recycled from the dump.