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We still have medical cocaine. It makes sense to have a company who has long term experience processing it to still do the same as long as they keep up the proper permits and labs.
Set this aside and I agree with @[email protected] that i have much less worry about this than i do about all the plastic. I truly wish we could and would move back to glass bottles because those can truly be recycled. Plastic CAN be but most places anymore don't actually recycle it.
My worry with changing bottles is whether or not anyone has looked into the difference in shipping pollution vs the plastic pollution. It could end up being no better in the long run. I would think glass would be better for sure if the shipping is electric, since the power itself can be regulated more tightly. But with fossil fuels, I have no idea where it would end up.
Once upon a time Coca cola used to sell coke in glass bottles that you would then give back to them, they'd wash them, sanitize them and sell them again. You'd pay a small deposit on the bottle that they'd then give back to you. They had bottling centers all over the place.
They switched to plastic bottles because it was much cheaper to let the government handle the garbage problem
I remember lol. Back when I was a kid there weren't plastic bottles in most places. I can't recall exactly when glass started going away, but you could still find some drinks in both as recently as the mid nineties.