[keetah992000]

These days, when we are trying to cut down on waste to help the enviroment ect I cant believe the governments general attitude towards introducing dipsosable drinking containers. It is beyond belief. When working in a small bar I would estimate about 300-400 drinks are served in 5-6 hours. Imagine the waste this would cause.

I used to work in a busy pub in the centre of Manchester and we had so called safety glasses there, they didnt shatter when broken. So instead of cleaning up a mess we were cleaning up people because breakingthe glasses left even more dangerous bases with sturdy long spikes sticking up, which people stood on because those that had broken them put them on the floor.

if anything they should be made out of a hybrid of the same glass windowscreen are made of - and completely shatter if given a strong blow.

Surely a tough polycarbonate glass would be like being hit with a brick. It may not cause cuts but will probably cause detrimental bone damage. ( This is the main reason that barrel glasses are no longer used as they are very strudy, don't shatter easily and were being used as "weapons" I can't remember if it is actually illegal to serve beer in these, but is is definitely frowned upon)

Just my first thoughts after briefly reading the article, but is it not another case of treating the symptom and not the cause?