Today I was just off Thayer St. A street which, incidentally or not, has had a small Japanese market for the last couple of years. There I found a glass soda bottle. While there was some English text on the label, the brand name was in Japanese. It tapered inwards at the bottom of the neck. And most unusual of all, a marble rolled around just above that tapered point.
It turns out this is a well-known Japanese soda brand called Ramune. The marble forms a seal with the glass bottle to keep it fizzy. Pretty cool process. So while littering isn't great, I was glad of the educational opportunity.
2 comments:
Thanks for the introduction to Ramune bottles. I looked them up after reading your description and they look very cool. If only the manufacturing world could return to using glass rather than plastic we might end up with much prettier and healthier beaches than these - it would be worth waiting for the sharp edges to get smooth.
The proble with plastic pollution is that there's more of it being added every day - tonnes of the stuff.
For all the handwringing over environmental issues--some of it more justified than other things of course--and for all the real problems with plastic, plastic is still the default packaging for many products. I guess the guy chatting to Benjamin Braddock in The Graduate knew what he was talking about. Anyway, yes, the glass is much prettier.
The plastic is probably going to survive our species, by a few centuries at least.
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