Day 39 Plastic vs Glass

Breakfast: Porridge, Toast with butter and honey, Hot Apple and Blackcurrant juice.
Snack: Home made biscuits.
Lunch: Roasted Cheese, Co-op Apple and Spring Water.
TeaTime: Tortilla, with extra potatoes.

Packaging is an issue for us with our food. If you make most of your food you are going to cut down on packaging a lot- you still have some things that are packaged- like eggs and flour and sugar- but a lot more recyclable paper. Processed stuff usually comes in plastic. My main source of plastic has probably been in my Copella english apple juice. I was having a look to see if I could work out whether Plastic is better if it is recycled and a comparison to glass bottles for things. The Co-op fruit and spring water comes in a glass bottle (unfortunately making it look like an alcopop)
The main points are: Plastic is made from a non-renewable resource which will run out at some point. It can be recycled but only a limited number of times. Glass is made from sand and as such we have pretty abundant resources of it. It can also be recycled multiple times. Both could also be re-used but Glass is more suitable for multiple re-use. The website addresses below give some interesting facts and figures about glass and plastic.
The best thing really would be re-useable glass milk bottles and Barrs drinks (if I could have guaranteed they had all uk ingredients, and it was in the least way healthy!)
Re-use is better than recycling.Glass recycling
Plastic Recycling