| The environmental concerns of the world we are | | | | Glass bottles also have the great advantage of |
| living in have determined the replacement of glass | | | | preserving a certain temperature for a longer |
| with other recyclable materials. The most relevant | | | | period of time. They do not dilate when it is too |
| case is the replacement of glass bottles with | | | | warm or shrink when exposed to lower |
| plastic pets; the latter have the advantage of | | | | temperatures. Depending on the type of |
| being a lot lighter, easier to manufacture and to | | | | beverage they store, glass bottles can be thicker |
| recycle, not to mention that the costs of plastic | | | | or thinner. Large international companies that are |
| are infinitely lower than those of glass. Hence, little | | | | considered brand names, usually have customized, |
| by little the use of glass bottles has entered a | | | | possibly etched glass bottles. This is usually the |
| descending path; nevertheless, they cannot be | | | | case with whiskey brands like Jack Daniel's, Jim |
| eliminated from the storing or packaging process | | | | Bean, Teacher's and so on. Such glass bottles are |
| of many types of goods. Yes, Coke-Cola or Pepsi | | | | usually thicker than those used for wine storing, |
| can be bottled in pets, milk can be sold in cartons, | | | | as wine manufacturers mainly choose slender |
| and beer in tin cans, but a good Bordeaux wine | | | | looking models that suggest taste refinement. |
| will never be stored in plastic. | | | | The recycling of glass bottles is required by law, |
| The advantage of glass bottles over the plastic | | | | and the separation of the glass residues in |
| ones is the quality of the material. Despite the | | | | households is essential for the process. Glass |
| long-use tradition, glass has the purity of structure | | | | bottles do not affect the structure of the |
| that makes any interaction with the stored liquid | | | | environment by their chemical composition, their |
| impossible. Plastic on the other hand is known to | | | | only problem comes from the fact that they |
| alter the properties of certain beverages because | | | | remain in the same form for millions of years, |
| of the chemical reactions that appear in time | | | | there will actually be no change in their structure. |
| between the artificial structure and the possible | | | | The necessity of recycling comes from the fact |
| acids in the beverage. Whiskey, wine, vodka or | | | | that a huge quantity of glass bottles are produced |
| any other kind of alcoholic drink any better stored | | | | and deposited as garbage every year, which only |
| in glass bottles than in any other type of | | | | leads to an overwhelmingly high pressure on the |
| container. | | | | environment. |