There’s more environmental consequences to single use plastic beverage container manufacturing as well. The raw plastic gets shipped to the manufacturer, the manufacturer injection molds what are called “preforms” then those get put into a blowmolder which uses very high pressure compressed air to form the bottles. This uses an incredible amount of electricity to run the compressors. Then the plastic bottles might get shipped to the bottling plant empty, then the filled bottles get shipped to a distribution warehouse, then they get shipped to the retailer. Pure insanity, especially if it’s bottled water.
There’s more environmental consequences to single use plastic beverage container manufacturing as well. The raw plastic gets shipped to the manufacturer, the manufacturer injection molds what are called “preforms” then those get put into a blowmolder which uses very high pressure compressed air to form the bottles. This uses an incredible amount of electricity to run the compressors. Then the plastic bottles might get shipped to the bottling plant empty, then the filled bottles get shipped to a distribution warehouse, then they get shipped to the retailer. Pure insanity, especially if it’s bottled water.