Glass nips better

A collector's cabinet full of miniature bottles

— Photo by kerinin 

Adapted from Robert Whitcomb’s “Digital Diary,’’ in GoLocal24.com

Rhode Island state legislators are considering banning those plastic nip liquor bottles of which you  see all too many  along roads, sidewalks and on beaches.

Good idea. They’ve added to the plastic pollution you see everywhere and that’s bad for wildlife as well as aesthetics (and thus tourism). That’s in part because all too many of the people who buy them are slobs and/or drunk.

And the smallness of the nip bottles discourages reuse.

If only more people demanded glass containers, which can be used indefinitely. And even if slobs dropped them in the water or on, say, a beach, they gradually wear down from the abrasion from sand, etc., and can become quite beautiful Anyone remember collecting “sea glass” (aks “beach glass”) as a kid?

Will someone some day finally invent a plastic that degrades rapidly with no harm to the environment?

“Sea glass’’