Unnecessarily large amount of glass does not result in worse packaging carbon footprint

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• Not sure if this is the right repo to report this in, but here goes:

Many upmarket wines and spirits are sold in excessively thick bottles, sometimes even with glass bottoms shaped inward, thereby reducing the amount of product fitting in large bottles.

As an example, I just edited the product "Don Papa Baroko" which ships just 70cl of product in a (single-use) glass bottle weighing 765g. While this choice of packaging probably has a big impact on product sustainability, given manufacturing and shipping halfway around the globe, the packaging is shown as "low-impact" on OFF.

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The impact of packaging is still in the early stages. In principle metal and glass has the lowest impact, as it can be recycled indefinitely. Weight is not yet taken into account. An research project is under way to assess weight. Maybe we will get a more finetuned assessment in the future.