I thought at least some of it was wax… but what did people drink out of before plastic was invented?? I’m not saying we have to regress technologically, but surely this is a solved problem.
People would make their own beverages (mostly beer and wine, as alcohol was the only preservant working) and use barrels to store them and mugs to drink them. After the development of pasteurization they would pasteurize juice and keep it in glass bottles. And they would share with neighbours, family and friends.
Of course there were breweries and wineries, too, they would sell their stuff mostly in barrels to pubs, and people would buy their beer and wine at the pub if they couldn’t make their own. In our area it was a common task for children to get a mug of beer for dad from the pub until the 50s, I think.
Pre-fabricated, non-alcoholic, bottled beverages are a modern luxury item we all got used to as normal.
Use a water bottle in stainless steel: safe to drink from and to wash, not really heavy, and keeps the temperature. Stainless steel is for reusable containers, but I’m not sure you can recycle it easily and efficiently. It’s also a bit expensive.
Glass is infinitely recyclable but it needs a lot of energy to be produced and recycled (you need to heat it a lot), is fragile, relatively expensive, and a lot is needed to make a good container, so it gets heavy, which might outweigh the positives sides it has.
Beverage in cardbord? It’s still just plastic on top of it
I thought at least some of it was wax… but what did people drink out of before plastic was invented?? I’m not saying we have to regress technologically, but surely this is a solved problem.
People would make their own beverages (mostly beer and wine, as alcohol was the only preservant working) and use barrels to store them and mugs to drink them. After the development of pasteurization they would pasteurize juice and keep it in glass bottles. And they would share with neighbours, family and friends.
Of course there were breweries and wineries, too, they would sell their stuff mostly in barrels to pubs, and people would buy their beer and wine at the pub if they couldn’t make their own. In our area it was a common task for children to get a mug of beer for dad from the pub until the 50s, I think.
Pre-fabricated, non-alcoholic, bottled beverages are a modern luxury item we all got used to as normal.
Glass, stainless steel I guess.
Use a water bottle in stainless steel: safe to drink from and to wash, not really heavy, and keeps the temperature. Stainless steel is for reusable containers, but I’m not sure you can recycle it easily and efficiently. It’s also a bit expensive.
Glass is infinitely recyclable but it needs a lot of energy to be produced and recycled (you need to heat it a lot), is fragile, relatively expensive, and a lot is needed to make a good container, so it gets heavy, which might outweigh the positives sides it has.
Also ceramics, it has most of the problems of glass but not as easily recyclable.
See for example roman amphores that were basically single-use
But it can be cleaned, right?