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I'm old enough to remember when the milkman delivered glass bottles of milk into a box at our back door and picked up the previous week's empties. I remember re
by edw519 11y ago
I'm old enough to remember when the milkman delivered glass bottles of milk into a box at our back door and picked up the previous week's empties. I remember reading once that the average milk bottle had a life span of 38 round trips. The same was pretty much true for soda bottles.
Some progress, huh?
- TillE 11y agoGlass bottles still work that way. Cleaned and reused. And at least in Germany, sturdy PET bottles get reused too; Wikipedia says 50x for glass, 25x for PET. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehrwegpfand https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehrwegpfand
- dasil003 11y agoNot only that, but a milk bottle that my mother saved from the late 60s we reused for keeping water in the fridge for the next 40 years. We reused that one thousands upon thousands of times.