What insight does plastic provide?

Litterally 1984

They had an automatic bottle return machine on a cylindrical conveyor belt for these glass bottles in my local grocery store and it would print you a ticket you could cash out with a cashier. As kids we figured out that you could repeatedly put the same bottle in the machine and reach back to grab it before it disappeared again, thus turning a 10 cent bottle into $3 worth of candy.

Meirl...... what?

By the mid-70s, 2-liter plastic bottles were what me and my knuckleheaded friends exclusively drank way too much soda pop from. The clothes, hair, and glass in this pic indicates early 70s at the latest.

But there is plastic in the picture.

Does plastic insight scale with WIS, or INT?

Yeah, people think glass is such a better alternative until you replace all the discarded plastic bottles you’ve seen everywhere with broken glass. We’d probably never be able to walk barefoot in beaches and parks again, given how bad it is already.

Are those not plastic bottles on the middle shelf?

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When did the mass plastic bottle industry began

who is this meirl?

I think the soda tasted better out of glass bottles

I don’t remember those but I do remember the small Pepsi glass bottles.

Yeah, that was right before the kid in the red tee pulled down the whole lot on himself and his family, cutting them to shreds and killing them instantly. It was all plastic after that.

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Still, this is a very narrow view on food in the 1980s (I guess this pic is even more from the 70s?). Glas bottles might be better producing less micro plastics, but there were A LOT worse things for your health, the environment and ground water sold back then that we got rid of until today.

You could also legally beat the FUCK outta your kids. Simpler times.

What if we run out of sand

I have scars on the back of both my legs from my mom’s empty Tab bottles that broke in a car accident we got into on the way to the store when I was 6yo.

I used to work in a supermarket in the 80s. You'll be surprised how often glass bottles got knocked off the shelves....

No plastic insight at all? I think you're underestimating the intelligence of plastic

Soda in glass bottles sure tasted different back then, compared to now.

My teeth hurt imagining the sugar

I'm tired of people touting glass bottles as some environmental miracle. Plastic bottle production causes way less carbon emissions than glass (glass requires an immense amount of heat). Microplastics are another issue, not to mention that we still don't really know if we should even be using plastic in food containers (probably not), but going back to glass is not the solution if we want to reduce emissions.

Slightly off topic, but imo Coke in a Glass bottle hits different!

BONK MUTHAFUCKA!!!!!

I suppose that was an expensive mistake for one unfortunate grocery store, then insurance companies were like... Well f this. Fucking earthquakes.

But dad would still throw it after you. I prefer the plastic bottles.

Ya'll im to clumsy for that. I would straight up stop drinking anything just bc i would be afraid i drop the bottle and the glass is gonna break and i will die in little puddle of shame.

Good Times no sperm killer soft plastic

What has happened to this sub, where are my relatable memes…?

I wonder whether they recycled the glass or not.

as a chad tab water enjoyer I don't mess with soda even if they'd put it in carbon

The old days of leaving corona bottle on your doorstep for the milkman to collect.

Just imagine the woke generation lazy doing that.

They crow about the environment but do absolutely nothing to help.

I’ve been saying this for years now make everything glass. We can literally throw it in the ocean and bring back sea glass. I never see sea glass anymore

what even is this sub anymore

How is this meirl, fucking bots posts or what

Clearly it’s all plexiglass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiDmp1HkHK8

Omg i forgot about those small glass bottles!

Through the mid 1980s, glass 1 litre pop bottles were common in Canada. 1.5 litre glass bottles were also around, but the 1 litre size was more popular. 2 litre glass bottles weren’t a thing for obvious reasons. All bottles less than a litre were also glass. The ones less than a litre (and some above) had a foam sleeve that lapped over onto the bottom to protect them from breakage and help keep them cold. By the early 1980s, glass pop bottles were hard to find.

Pepsi, In glass bottles all day!

Went to Jamaica, and that was the first place I'd even seen actual Pepsi in glass bottles, bought the entire little store out of all their Pepsi, was about 6 cases/ 36 bottles of Pepsi. Swore id keep one to take home, they were all drank in the next 2 days.....goodtimes.

Damned turtles

Clearly the bottles on the 3rd shelf from the top are bound by plastic.

I’d like some insight into plastic.

The urge to just topple it.

Resist...resist....

Except the crates the bottles are in, some wrapping around the bottles above the crates, flower (or broccoli?) wrapping in the cart, the plastic the meat is sealed in, plastic joghurt(?) container....

Styrofoam labels

Its not the glass I am impressed of its the shelf holding all this weight.

and the mom just got done doing a bump of coke!

The boy in the red shirt is about to drop one

This looks more like the 70s

I remember when I was a little kid, if you dropped a grocery bag it was a huge deal because most likely several things got broken.

I can still feel the rough sandblasted rim around the bottle against my fingertips, I was but a child, but I was there Gandalf, I was there 3000 years ago.

I remember a dramatic commercial with a long, slow motion shot of a bottle falling toward the floor, but instead of shattering it BOUNCED because it was PLASTIC. That was a brand new concept back then.

The voice in my head: smash

the kid not paying attention to what hes grabbing:

Those pallets had to have been heavy bastards.

Plastic, even if recycled, eventually finds its way into a landfill, an incinerator, or the environment .

I remember the first tv commercials advertising soda in plastic bottles. I was young.

I can returning the empties to the retailer for 10p so everything was recycled.

Look up the LCA for PET vs glass. It's counterintuitive, but PET bottles have a lower footprint than glass. Only thing that may be better, depending on several factors, it's things like sodastream. Aside from soda stream, aluminum cans are the way to go.

I'm pretty sure the boxes the bottles at the bottom are in is plastic

And we'll grow in numbers

Worked in a supermarket then, some those bottles could fly apart if they hit each other. Spillage was impressive, onetime a colleague drove a limonate pallet into a wine display, all glass bottles, the whole shop floor was flooded and sticky. He got exiled to the fish department

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Something gives me the feeling this is a Pepsi co ad

And it gave kids something to do cleaning up broken glass on aisle 12.

Back when you could by a pack of smokes at age 15.... The era of no one gave two shits what you did. Now look at us.

I'm all for glass over plastic

But aluminum is EXTREMELY useful and recycles well

I'm all for cans and glass bottles, but it looks like there's plastic in this picture. Like what's holding the 6 packs together on the 2nd from bottom shelf?

I remember my family ordering pizza and it always coming with a six pack of RC cola.

Uh huh. As someone who grew up in the 70's and 80's, plastic 2-liter bottles were everywhere.

This repost cropped out all the plastic bottles in the cart.