Flat plastic wine bottles
- Thread starter Jeff Grossman
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Keith Levenberg
Keith Levenberg
I feel like a bottle deliberately designed for a hobo to keep in his trenchcoat pocket should be made of a material you can break against a drainpipe in case of a fight.
Jeff Grossman
Jeff Grossman
Unless he is from the Hobonne region of France he's not a hobo, just a sparkling bum.
Oswaldo Costa
Oswaldo Costa
I LOVE the idea. Compact for cellar storage, stable in temperature, and won't break if you smuggle some in your suitcase. Once empty, they make good beach ball paddles. And those sufficiently not reactionary to buy them won't mind the screwcap, so they double as ideological markers.
Jonathan Loesberg
Jonathan Loesberg
When I was on my University's Social Justice and Rsponsibility Committee (I forget the name, but it was something like that), students were militating to end the University buying bottled water, making filtered water coolers the norm instead. They were quite persuasive. The plastic bottles themselves are not good for the climate. And making water a saleable commodity leads to less attention to the health of the public water supply, which poor people depend upon. There were other reasons. About the only reason to oppose their request was admiration for the capitalist chuzpah of managing to sell something that was widely available for free. I shared the admiration but voted with the rest of the committee to endorse the students' request. I guess, for Oswaldo, that makes me reactionary.
Peter Creasey
Peter Creasey
It seems there is already WAY too much plastic in today's world...and too much of it can be found discarded on roadways.
. . . . . Pete
. . . . . Pete
Oswaldo Costa
Oswaldo Costa
Ok, ok, I love the idea if they're made with cycled plastic and are, in turn, recycled.
Jeff Grossman
Jeff Grossman
I'm not persuaded that alcohol - a famous solvent - won't leach things out of the plastic in time.
I applaud the advance in ergonomics, however.
I applaud the advance in ergonomics, however.
I’ve been concerned for a while about the carbon footprint of transporting wine in heavy glass bottles. Ideally, of course, we’d all bicycle over to our local Cave Cooperative and get our wine en vrac, but that model doesn’t work too well for those of us in flyover country unless we resign ourselves to a life of sparkling Catawba and Chambourcin. At the same time, if we’ve learned nothing else in the past few years it’s that plastic recycling is largely a sham perpetrated by the petrochemical industry. Wine in a can might be a viable alternative, although aluminum is highly energy-demanding to produce. Then again, aluminum recycling is no sham.
Mark Lipton
(Still recovering from the paper or plastic dilemma of two decades ago)
Mark Lipton
(Still recovering from the paper or plastic dilemma of two decades ago)
Karen Goetz
Karen Goetz
YUCK. Enough plastic already. Our oceans are drowning in it and animals' guts and gills are the captive recipients of far more tons of plastic than ever sees the insides of any "recycling" plant. (just imagine your insides filled with plastic instead of your lovely hip pocket)
And what MLipton said about petroleum corporate feel-good shams.
Karen Goetz
Karen Goetz
I'm working on hollowing out pumpkins and using them as substitutes for bag in box. They even ride nicely on the back of my Surly LHT, properly bungied.
Jonathan Loesberg
Jonathan Loesberg
In the case of bottled water, it isn't just the plastic. It's creating a market that encourages less expenditure on public drinking water and thus more Flint Michigans.
Tristan Welles
Tristan Welles
Agreed. Recyclers sell plastic offshore to be "recycled". Hard pass.
Christian Miller (CMM)
Christian Miller
Strangely enough, I just had a quite tasty Methode Champenoise rose' made from Vidal and Chambourcin, from Stone Hill (MO). Could easily have been slipped into a California or Loire MC sparkling wine tasting.