All beverages are conveyed to the consumer by some size, design and type of container with a variety of closures that appeal to the potential buyer. Still, hidden behind the innocent package is a myriad of manufacturing and sales factors that determine the issues of size, type and material of those containers.
The transition of containers from a relatively standard size, type, material configuration scenario to the current broad spectrum of all these issues makes it a significant topic to focus on the practicality of “real” standards from environmentally acceptable and economically feasible viewpoints.