Glass

[emmie]

whilst i like a glass to drink out of, i wonder why we don't use other materials to store certain goods. I accidentally broke a full jar of coffee. And not only is it smashed to smithereens, but the glass and coffee went everywhere. Add in the fact i am now cut in three places trying to sweep this mess up. Why can't we have a hard plastic container instead of coffee jars. Is it because they are not so easily disposed of. If they made them in a hard plastic or similar it wouldn't have smashed and now have to pay a kings ransom to replace it. I am also bleeding like a proverbial stuck pig. Oh fluffing hell.

[abstibus]

em
You can buy coffee on Amazon but look out for postage costs.

[emmie]

i wouldn't have thought you could get stuff like that on Amazon, and as you said the postage surely would outweigh any savings.

[parkie]

Sounds like you could do within sitting down, em, and relaxing with a nice hot cup of ....er.

[Mosaic]

Can I just revisit the 'recycled glass' issue - think JJ raised it....

We are not short of the ingredients for glass ie sand.
The heat needed to re-shape glass vessels into new products is possibly the same as fusing sand.

I agree that unbroken glass jars etc should be re-used - they used to do this with jamjars (you got back 3 old pence for a big 'un) and until recently the French did this with wine bottles.

But lots of our dry goods could be sold in coated paper containers - like tetrapaks.

Hope you have got more coffee and some Elastoplat Em - have a bikkie too.

[emmie]

i had thought the shop manufacturers could come up with a decent reusable container for good like coffee. Anyway i have put the coffee in a plastic container, as to the elastoplast i would have needed half a dozen, little slivers of glass make an awful mess.