You know what's odd about all of this? Glass bottles. What ever happened to glass bottles. As a kid I remember water coolers with 5-gallon glass bottles. Glass REALLY DOES recycle well. But we had to abandon it. Why?
Of course, you could say that glass breaks easily, but that's easily overcome. Next time you drink a Guinness beer, or see someone drinking a Guinness out of the bottle -- try to break the bottle. Let them finish consuming the beer first, no need to start trouble. Guinness bottles are (heat) shrink wrapped in plastic. Because of the tight plastic on the outside of the bottle, it prevents vibrations from causing the glass to break (by removing constructive interference) or "destructive" *literally* in the case of the bottle.
I had one at a party and people couldn't break it, even by throwing it on the sidewalk! Of course it *eventually* broke, but you get the point. It was insanely hard to break and people were lining up to throw it. Great entertainment for drunk people.
As a society, we went away from something that was truly environmentally friendly (glass), to something that was not (plastic). All for the environment...? 🤔
I think research budgets at NIAID/NIH/FDA/CDC etc should actually do something useful to generate solutions or at least mitigations, rather than vaccines that don't work!
I just wish they'd stop treating us like guinea pigs for all their democidal experiments, but this is the beast we've been feeding...and now it's too big to fail.
You know what's odd about all of this? Glass bottles. What ever happened to glass bottles. As a kid I remember water coolers with 5-gallon glass bottles. Glass REALLY DOES recycle well. But we had to abandon it. Why?
Of course, you could say that glass breaks easily, but that's easily overcome. Next time you drink a Guinness beer, or see someone drinking a Guinness out of the bottle -- try to break the bottle. Let them finish consuming the beer first, no need to start trouble. Guinness bottles are (heat) shrink wrapped in plastic. Because of the tight plastic on the outside of the bottle, it prevents vibrations from causing the glass to break (by removing constructive interference) or "destructive" *literally* in the case of the bottle.
I had one at a party and people couldn't break it, even by throwing it on the sidewalk! Of course it *eventually* broke, but you get the point. It was insanely hard to break and people were lining up to throw it. Great entertainment for drunk people.
As a society, we went away from something that was truly environmentally friendly (glass), to something that was not (plastic). All for the environment...? 🤔
Great point. I have witnessed "non-Guinness" bottles used in bar fights with some horrible scarring impacts.
But yes, recycling glass milk, beer, tomato sauce bottles etc would seem to be something lost - no doubt it has to do with money.
I am reminded of the first discovery of microplastics in human blood and feces: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/24/microplastics-found-in-human-blood-for-first-time. Suddenly noted two years after the first time people were given mask mandates. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9055833/
Interesting.
I think research budgets at NIAID/NIH/FDA/CDC etc should actually do something useful to generate solutions or at least mitigations, rather than vaccines that don't work!
I just wish they'd stop treating us like guinea pigs for all their democidal experiments, but this is the beast we've been feeding...and now it's too big to fail.