[ecjhdnc2025]

Broken glasses in bars, for example, have a lot more impacts than just waste.

Broken glass has to be cleaned up, causes injuries, even causes lost product in some situations.

I was in a cocktail bar once with three friends who ordered us the same chilled cocktail, served there day in, day out, and as the cocktails were poured into the glasses, three of the four glasses broke. Plink, plink, plink.

Glasses too hot, cocktail too cold, some other handling problem. Who knows. But tougher glass might not have done that.

[mytailorisrich]

That sounds like clutching at straws while not really showing how that'd make a significant difference to anything.

Make all glasses recyclable. Probably more important but less marketable for a new startup idea...

[inglor_cz]

A friend used to work in a student bar as a bartender. Broken glass was legitimately a safety issue. Drunken people can cut themselves quite creatively, including severed sinews.

Ironically, most of his patrons were medical students.

[ecjhdnc2025]

I don't think it is "clutching at straws" for a bar to want glasses that break less frequently, causing fewer safety concerns, and to be prepared to pay the extra, but whatever.