No more glass beer bottles!!!!!!!

I am tired of driving over broken beer bottles in the street in front of my house..... everywhere I drive for that matter. I say no more glass beer bottles! Let's pass some legislation on this. It will pass.... just a matter of time.

Joe.

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joe
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The powerful homebrewing lobby will be against you. Not to mention the hoards of beer drinkers that won't drink canned beer because it tastes metallic. Or the ones that prefer to drink out of a bottle cuz it don't dribble as much. And don't forget, there's the health issue of drinking out of cans. There's no way to see if a mouse got inside till it's too late.

You're in for a tough fight on this one. Best just to move to a better neighbourhood. ;-)

Brian

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Brian Lundeen

Sounds like you should move.

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Richard Kaszeta

Does government have to do EVERYTHING for you people? Buy a gun and a starlight scope, solve the problem yourself.

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Lew Bryson

Not that I'm one to feed a troll, but would he possibly be proposing plastic bottles? Man, that would suck.

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Paul Hobson

Some euro countries (Scandinavia & Germany + some US states?) have incentives to encourage glass being recycled (or beter still, re-used)

It seems that for decent micro & regional beer in UK at least, no-one is using re-usable bottles, my guess is that it's not in the bottle manufacturers' interests to make them (or promote them).

I used to work for one of the very few u-brews in UK & we had re-usable german bottles (green glass tho, for some reason!) to sell to our customers - great idea, I thought.

AFAIK apart from the positive environmental impact there are no incentives for brewers or drinkers to reuse or recycle their glass in UK at present. (apart from at CAMRA beerfests ;~)

On the topic at hand, what do you suggest, Joe - plastic? AFAIK It's only in the last few years that we've come up with O2-proof plastic, and while it might be better for your tyres, it's not great for the environment. (I suspect even less plastic is recycled than glass). cheers MikeMcG U.K.

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MikeMcG

I did that. Didn't help. I was able to hit the bottles even more easily, making the problem worse.

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Joel

I'm wondering whether those new "aluminum bottles" (see Iron City) are going to take off.

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~ I am tired of driving over broken beer bottles in the street in front ~ of my house..... everywhere I drive for that matter. I say no more ~ glass beer bottles! Let's pass some legislation on this. It will ~ pass.... just a matter of time. ~ ~ Joe.

Drop the drinking age to 18, but ya can't buy glass bottles till you're 30.

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Aaron Leonard

Just what I was thinking Lew. What's the point of you Americans having all those guns if you're not going to *use* them for something? And don't give me that deerhunting bullshit :-)

Best regards, Paul

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Paul Sherwin

Saw a sample of a new aluminum bottle of Budweiser on the counter at a liquor store just the other day (I guess it was Bud but the "modern" graphics might have meant it was that Select sh*t, too, I guess), so it's already got A-B money behind it (not that A-B been all that successful with "new" packaging lately -don't they try the 1 gallon can and a magnum bottle every once in awhile? Well, for that matter, they haven't been too successful with "new" beers, either, I suppose (Tequiza, anyone?). Poor A-B, looks like they'll just have to live with only 50% of the market...)

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jesskidden

I've seen Michelob in aluminum bottles. I know that A-B said that they would try the new packaging for slower moving brands, so seeing A-B product in an aluminum bottle means it's not doing too well.

Tom W

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Tom Wolper

Y'know, them deer, it's either shoot 'em or dodge the bastids when they charge your car. Man's gotta defend hisself!

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Lew Bryson

Put a 5 or 10c deposit on beer bottles and for that matter, on all soft drink containers also. You wont have a beverage litter problem any more - guaranteed.

-- - -- - -- Steve W

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QD Steve

Bottle bills suck, for a variety of reasons. We have curbside recycling, and no litter in our neighborhoods. Everyone benefits, everyone pays, and it's easy: just put it in the bin. No need to accumulate wads of stanky used bottles that you have to cart to the redemption point. I've lived in bottle bill states, I lived in recycling states. Comprehensive curbside recycling is better. Not to mention...one of the main reasons for beer/wine/spirits bottle litter is...the stupid 21 legal drinking age. Down To 18!

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Lew Bryson

snipped-for-privacy@webtv.net (E. Carl Speros) wrote on 09 May 2005:

Good beer should always be poured from its container into a glass. Plus, it's highly unlikely you can taste the difference between a can of crap beer and a bottle of the same (see below), but if more breweries could afford to can their beer, they would.

Skunking is virtually impossible (probably completely impossible) in a can as opposed to any bottle, green, clear or brown. Plus, today's cans are specially coated to eliminate any chance of the metal leaching into the beer, so that myth can be laid to rest.

Finally, aluminum cans are the only recyclable material today that it pays, economically, to recycle.

Witzel

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Dave Witzel

True...but there are no beer bottles on the streets of New York. 5c each and nobody tosses them. I like it.

Barry - NY

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Backglass

Yeah? Only bottles on my street is when the occasional one falls out of the recycling bins. It works too...and I don't have a stinking, vermin-attracting pile of bottles in the back room.

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Lew Bryson

Do you offer any money back with that guarnatee? Because a drive down the

710 freeway this morning was ample proof that California's deposits don't do jack shit about preventing a litter problem.

-Steve

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Steve Jackson

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