New Waitrose almost on the Oxford

[nbfiresprite]

13 minutes ago, welly said:

Cans are the new bottles!

 

Cans weigh less

Cans take up less space

Cans keep beer fresher and don't skunk beer like bottles do

You can still "bottle" condition beer in cans (the sediment is yeast) (except you're can conditioning, obviously)

For the hippies, canned beer is more carbon neutral due to space/weight reduction. 

They can deliver more cans at once - figures suggest transporting canned beer emits 20% less greenhouse gases than bottles.

Cans have more space for better design/branding

 

Cans are the new bottles!

 

Draught > Can > Bottle > No Beer

 

Glass Bottles can be reused many times, Cans have to be melted down and made in to new ones therefore more energy is used. Which cancels out any savings in transport costs.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, nbfiresprite said:

Glass Bottles can be reused many times, Cans have to be melted down and made in to new ones therefore more energy is used. Which cancels out any savings in transport costs.

Cans are recycled much more than bottles.

 

http://www.aluminum.org/aluminum-can-advantage

 

• 5 out of every 6 glass bottles are thrown away.
• More than 28 billion glass bottles and jars end up in landfills every year which is the equivalent to the Empire State Building filling up every 3 weeks

https://www.recyclingbins.co.uk/recycling-facts/

 

Cans!

[ditchcrawler]

9 minutes ago, nbfiresprite said:

Glass Bottles can be reused many times, Cans have to be melted down and made in to new ones therefore more energy is used. Which cancels out any savings in transport costs.

But they dont

28 minutes ago, welly said:

Cans are the new bottles!

 

Cans are the new bottles!

 

Draught > Can > Bottle > No Beer

 

Draught, Bottle, can, no beer for me

[Lily Rose]

1 hour ago, nbfiresprite said:

 

So you see not evely thing is expensive in store that's just put a round to keep the riff raff out.  

 

Doesn't work then.

 

I think Waitrose are expensive.

 

I am riff raff.

 

Yet I do sgo in there for a bit of shopping (now and again).

 

[nbfiresprite]

1 hour ago, welly said:

Cans are recycled much more than bottles.

 

http://www.aluminum.org/aluminum-can-advantage

 

• 5 out of every 6 glass bottles are thrown away.
• More than 28 billion glass bottles and jars end up in landfills every year which is the equivalent to the Empire State Building filling up every 3 weeks

https://www.recyclingbins.co.uk/recycling-facts/

 

Cans!

The figures that I have, show a recycing rate of more than 50% and iam talking about whole life cost not single use as with the case with cans. The Nordic countries are very keen on bottle reuse.

 

https://www.packagingnews.co.uk/features/comment/glass-bottles-recycling-and-reuse-in-the-uk-matthew-kensall-23-09-2015

 

Then there are doorstep deliveres of milk in reuseable glass bottles which is increasing, up 20% in the last two years with over a million pints delivered each day.

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/glass-milk-bottles-plastic-pollution-recycling-environment-replace-a8172816.html

 

What lead to the decline of reuseable bottles, the cost cutting greed of the supermarket chains.

 

To sumup

 

Bottles can be cleaned and refilled many times. As is the case in many countries else where

 

Cans one use before being melted down and remoulded.