Re: [greenyes] plastic bottle frustrations

[Alan Muller <amuller@no.address>]

At 08:32 PM 4/10/2005 -0400, CORRI GOTTESMAN wrote:
> encourage the bottle industry to produce PET bottles with a weakness in 
> them that would break the bottle with the amount of psi exerted by a 
> typical compacting unit.
>
> Other suggestions?

Given that many of these bottles are essentially "pressure vessels" having 
to contain carbonated beverages, I suspect the ram pressure needed to pop 
them might be excessive.  I wonder if some sort of perforating device might 
be more practical.

am

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