Food in Glass

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Our mission is to replace plastic packaging for food with glass packaging.

Our mission is to replace plastic packaging for food with glass packaging.Our mission is to replace plastic packaging for food with glass packaging.Our mission is to replace plastic packaging for food with glass packaging.

Thousands of food products are sold in plastic containers today. We will sell products in glass to replace the plastic.

Microplastics shed by food packaging are contaminating our food and drink, study finds

We can replace plastic food containers with glass.

Human brain samples contain an entire spoon’s worth of nanoplastics, study says.

Although food in glass containers can be found in every supermarket, their numbers are dwarfed by food packaged in plastic containers.

Although food in glass containers can be found in every supermarket, their numbers are dwarfed by food packaged in plastic containers.

Read the report.


“Studies have found these plastics in the human heart, the great blood vessels, the lungs, the liver, the testes, the gastrointestinal tract and the placenta,” Landrigan said.


“This is the first systematic evidence of how normal and intended use of foodstuffs packaged in plastics can be contaminated with micro- and nanoplas

Read the report.


“Studies have found these plastics in the human heart, the great blood vessels, the lungs, the liver, the testes, the gastrointestinal tract and the placenta,” Landrigan said.


“This is the first systematic evidence of how normal and intended use of foodstuffs packaged in plastics can be contaminated with micro- and nanoplastics,” Zimmermann said. “We found food packaging is actually a direct source of the micro- and nanoplastics measured in food.”



Although food in glass containers can be found in every supermarket, their numbers are dwarfed by food packaged in plastic containers.

Although food in glass containers can be found in every supermarket, their numbers are dwarfed by food packaged in plastic containers.

Although food in glass containers can be found in every supermarket, their numbers are dwarfed by food packaged in plastic containers.

The "Food in Glass" team has seventy-five years of experience in the food industry, with established relationships to realize the goals of our program. 


Our goal is to flood the market with competitively priced food products packaged in glass and to inform the public of the potential health risks from food packaged in plastic.

Raise your hand if you want to help us replace food packaged in plastic with glass packaging.

Although food in glass containers can be found in every supermarket, their numbers are dwarfed by food packaged in plastic containers.

Raise your hand if you want to help us replace food packaged in plastic with glass packaging.

Tens of millions of consumers throughout the world are aware of the potential health risks from plastic in general. We will work with organizations that promote alternatives to plastic to inspire consumers everywhere to ask their supermarkets, Club Stores, and all sellers of food  to sell "Food in Glass"


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Tens of millions of consumers throughout the world are aware of the potential health risks from plastic in general. We will work with organizations that promote alternatives to plastic to inspire consumers everywhere to ask their supermarkets, Club Stores, and all sellers of food  to sell "Food in Glass"


Please leave your contact details (Click here) and we will send an email to you with suggestions to help us accomplish our goals.

Founders, Food in Glass

Carl Carstensen

For more than forty years, Carl was a leading executive at IBM in Europe. His business and management skills helped IBM accomplish its goals wherever Carl was posted. He has also been a dedicated environmentalist and brings passion to the development and leadership of "Food in Glass:   See LinkedIn

Marc Schechtman

Marc graduated from the University of Illinois in 1975 with a degree in Elementary Education. He began teaching second grade the same year. Marc has also worked with his family in the food industry on several occasions over the last fifty years. His family has owned a food brokerage company, developed a wholesale natural food company, owned restaurants, frozen food operations, and several other food-related companies beginning in the 1950s. 


Marc has four children and one amazing granddaughter. He is dedicated to accomplishing the goals of the "Food in Glass" program. You can reach Marc at marc@foodinglass.com or by calling +1 858 866 4958

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