Does it take fossil fuels to make plastic?

Another friend posted about going back to storing things in glass jars, and I threw out a lot of my older plastic. It sure gave me more cupboard space. I like the idea. I keep hearing that even if not heated,plastic leaches harmful chemicals into those things that are stored in it. I do not know. I know that I reuse as much plastic as I can. If you are using more of the storage bowls, you are using less of the baggies and plastic wrap, so I guess that is better. We are pretty sold on a convenience lifestyle.

Well if we went back to glass, we would burn more gas due to the additional weight of transporting all of the products. We have got to recycle. Stop using disposable containers so much, forget sandwich bags,get a plastic container and use that for sandwiches. Buy a lunch box. Instead of those 20 oz bottles of water, buy a water cooler and get those 5 gallon jugs, that you return and are reused. We have to think more

It does take fossil fuels to make plastic. To go green you can use only glass, recyclable paper or aluminum foil (its recyclable) storage items.

Yes. It takes oil and natural gas to make plastic and glass. So many products are oil based now. Going green might require you to hollow out an old fallen log to use for holding liquids...lol

We do use a lot of plastic in our everyday living. Things we take for granted even. But even to produce glass, I would think it would take some type of fossil fuel to make it. Not sure, but that's what I think.

no! we do not make plastic out of fossil fuels we use this sticky fibre to make it its thick in the begging then they flattin it and then put in bags and then buy it(if you dont really get what im saying send me a messagage.And remember my name is (walker123).

It looks that way . Seems o me like we do use alot of plastic and just throw it away and then it goes to the dump its very hard to get rid of I read somewhere ow many years it took to disintergrate and that was /is a very very long time ,I prefer glass I can used them for alot of different thing when empty must more than I can plastic jars

I think so that fossil fuels are used to make plastic and other stuff.fossil fuels are decomposed and are transmitted into various items.i have heard so.

But is glass any better?? I think people should recycle!! Glass takes 1 million years to degrade in the landfill. Plastic is NEVER. So neither are really better, but our area recycles plastic, so I choose that over glass. Too bad most people just don't care.