Food & Beverage Technology

Beer tastes better in a big, heavy glass mug.

I have always had a preference for glass, except when camping.

or in the pool

There are two things to take into consideration here, first, a glass bottle is inert and will not contaminate anything that is in it, while plastic containers leach out harmfull chemicals, many of them carciogenic!

Secondly, sand, potash and calc is nearly never ending, while plastics require natural mineral oil to produce them, and this is fast running out!

Then there is the fact that drinking from a glass tastes much better than from a plastic container!

Compared to plastic, glass is heavy, expensive, can cause cut injuries and less resistant to breakage, but as a readily renewable resourse, less damaging to the environment, I'm for glass 100%.

Hi ronseto, I'm glad that you are 100% all for glass, and yes glass when broken can inflict serious damage, but not as deadly as the poisons leached out of plastic containers!

Now that they've gotten the lead out of the glass, I, too, am for 100% glass! If only they could refine all glass to be shatter-proof, that would solve the injury problems. Besides, Fulgurite is some pretty cool stuff! That something plastic can't do