Polycarbonate Pint glasses

Unbreakable Polycarbonate Pint Glasses and rigid Polystrene Reusable Pint Tumblers are becoming a common feature in pubs and nightclubs up and down the UK, increasingly so since the introduction of the smoking ban. As people who smoke are forced outside to smoke - taking their Pint Glass with them - so we have seen a rise in the number of "glassings" (sadly the word "Glass" is now a verb in this country "to glass")

As a consequence of this rise in injuries more councils, public houses and police forces are demanding that unbreakable Plastic Glasses are used after certain times of the day, usually in the evening after 7pm (it seems the availability of alcohol 24 hours a day in the UK hasn't changed our drinking habits too much)

Funding for such fundamental changes to our drinking vessels has been provided by some local authorities to assist some establishments in the change over, monies one imagines has been saved from a reduction in ambulance call outs and doctors time.

There are two types of Plastic Cups which are now becoming commonplace, unbreakable Polycarbonate glasses and Polystyrene reusable glasses.

The Polycarbonate material was used for commercial plane windscreens as the aeroplanes needed a clear material tougher than glass as the screens regularly came into contact with birds. Polycarbonate is now notably used for Plastic cups and Bullet Proof Glass, the material looks just like real glass and is lighter in weight than glass.

Unlike Polycarbonate Glasses Rigid Polystyrene glasses will break but not easily so they could not be used as a stabbing weapon and are a cheap way of avoiding using glass.