Imagine if you could only borrow a fixed amount of packaging at a time, and you had to return the excess (properly sorted and cleaned) before you could buy more

Imagine if you could only borrow a fixed amount of packaging at a time, and you had to return the excess (properly sorted and cleaned) before you could buy more. The more non-R material (light weight plastic like strawberry shells) the more your waste costs would go up. And why not rigid and reusable ABS trays for strawberries? Would the trucking cost for returning to the distribution centre be excessive? Or is it just that the entire supply chain assumes trucks return empty? An interesting example is CHEP pallets. They are only loaned, pallets come back eventually. Interesting operations research problems in moving pallets around.