I re-use jam jars for food storage, drinking glasses, mini herb gardens, etc. and could incorporate bottles, jars, and other glass containers into a variety of needs around the house if they were designed with second and third lives in mind.
Add in health effects of microplastics/chemical leaching and glass is again a winner.
Transportation costs and breakage are perhaps higher, but maybe that’s a cost we should accept?
I suspect that transportation and breakage costs are higher only because we don't account for externalities when considering plastic: in other words producers don't sustain the full costs and are effectively subsidized by the society at large and the environment (through increased healthcare spending, lower QOL, higher obesity rates, lower fertility, and other environmental costs that will be sustained by future generations).
There are externalities with glass too (think shattered bottles in public spaces) but my feeling is they’re fewer and less earth-destroying.
For reference, I assume you mean a bottle scraper here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottle_scraper
They're not specifically intended for condiments (most jam jars are low and wide enough that they can be scraped with a spoon), but for storing more viscous liquids in larger glass (milk) bottles, like yoghurt or vla.
Interestingly that bag wasn't sloppy or wobbly at all, because on one side it had a handle, which felt like it was inflated with something, which made it stiff. Still one time use only, though less material.
Standardized glass containers would be useful, although in some ways already exist (mason jars usually accept common lids, for instance).
What we need is a shift in mentality away from a plastic-first approach.
“I’ve got one word for you kid: glass.”
Solving the leaky bottle upside down problem is too narrow a focus.
Cardboard, it's origami for industry: sheet form, now optimise assembly, cost and structural integrity alongside ease of production...
"The Package Design Book", "Structural Package Design" and "Complex Packaging" via https://mobile.twitter.com/robin7331/status/1484442902050881...
Single use wooden items don’t cause flooding and damage wildlife.
These are not the same. They don’t have the same problems.
Sriracha Bottle Cap: it's a fun design, but in my experience it tends to turn filthy, sticky and basically break. Kind of terrible, really.
Vita Coco Bottle Cap: okay if it works, very annoying if it doesn't. The whole container is a recycling nightmare, fwiw.
That's was true in an age of raw material abundance where a light and disposable package means less transportation cost, simple infrastructures, less distributed human labor requirements etc. You can pack milk in a factory and directly ship it to stores where the only need is putting them on some supermarket shelf. In the past there is a need for glass bottles who are fragile and heavyweight, they need to be cleaned up, there is an industry to wash/recycle them, many stages in line etc...
The result of modern food packaging is that we are able to concentrate stuff, few big factories in exotic places, more products on shelves, cheaper product. However now we start seeing that such efficient move is not sustainable... I bet in the future we will came back somewhat, and such move will hurt MUCH...
For me, none of them work. And they often seem like an expensive component.
1. Reduce plastic consumption as much as you can. 2. Use reusable bags 3. Choose packaging that contains less plastic. This is truly horrible in the US. Apple sauce containers for kids have so much unnecessary plastic. I mean the ones with the fancy caps that are big only to appeal to kids.
And to reduce your carbon footprint further - controversial point incoming - reduce or stop eating meat.
“But, aren’t you using a smartphone? Do you not buy X? Do you not use X? Do you drive? Do you travel? … All your points are therefore invalid“
When I’m hungry and someone offers a slice of pizza I don’t say no if I can’t have the entire pie. I take the slice. Start with a step today then take another one tomorrow.
Eventually there will be enough of us that we opt to tax companies at the source for using plastics unnecessarily or having a ridiculous carbon footprint. And May be we can have effective carbon capture technologies and better ways to deal with plastic.
Plenty of us do, but industry lobbying is so far stronger:
https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/news/plastics-industry-contin...
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/government...
and a bonus if the planet can support great-grandchildren. At the moment, that is no longer a given.
idk how they went from 3d data to those images, I'd imagine whatever scanning software they use exports a lot of frames
and then you can put those frames together in something like after effects and just export a gif
use wappalyzer extension to figure it technologies in the future
Yeah but the biggest effort went into making it cheap.
Does anyone know how they monetize this page? Or is it just a hobby project?
Is the hardware and software needed for CT scans really that expensive or not?
Is there really another "first-world" country on earth with healthcare broken like it is in the US?
https://www.courant.com/la-fi-ct-scanners-20180730-story.htm...
Naturally it‘s free if a doctor decides you need one.
The other is an institutional monopoly that, while initially set up with lofty goals to save lives, has devolved into a suppressive tool that works against the common man.
X-rays are quite cheap in the medical world (reading them is where the cost is, not taking the x-ray).
