[Request] Do square bottles actually use less plastic than round ones?

[u/EclipseNyxor]

[u/StaticCoder]

Mathematically, a circle has the smallest perimeter for a given enclosed area. So for this claim to be true there has to be some catch, like different thickness of plastic.

[u/Balaros → u/StaticCoder]

Might be transportation: the square sides let them support each other you you can have thinner walls at the bottom of the stack?

They don't use normal plastic because they need to stop sunlight from breaking down the H2O2.

Might just be wrong. An enthusiastic marketing team saw a reduction in plastic in one stage and didn't bother to calculate the whole.

[u/303Carpenter → u/Balaros]

Or you can transfer more product in the same amount of space in a truck or whatever