🤔 What are the pros and cons of using glass as a food contact material?

🍾 Glass is a widely used material in food packaging due to its chemical stability, durability, and strong barrier properties. Unlike paper, board, and plastics, glass is a highly inert material (like ceramic and stainless steel), meaning it does not interact with the food it comes into contact with.

🔁 This makes glass a chemically safe food contact material. However, glass is naturally a heavier material and requires high temperatures to produce and recycle. This makes manufacturing and transporting it more energy intensive than other materials. Reusing glass packaging instead of recycling single-use glass packaging significantly reduces the amount of energy needed.