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Specifically green and brown bottles are cost-effective to recycle. Clear bottles typically are not.
by maxk42 6y ago
Specifically green and brown bottles are cost-effective to recycle. Clear bottles typically are not.
- foolmeonce 6y agoI think clear bottles sent for recycling just end up in other colors.. Getting clear out would be hard.
- chongli 6y agoClear glass bottles are great for reusing though. I know of at least a few local breweries that reuse their clear glass bottles. When you buy the beer you pay a ten cent deposit per bottle which you get back when you return them. It’s a great system!
- greedo 6y agoOne of the dairies nearby sells their milk in heavy glass bottles. They charge a $2 surcharge that's refundable when you return the bottle, and they reuse all the bottles they get that aren't damaged. I wonder how many cycles they typically get out of a bottle before it's no longer useful.
- pvorb 6y agoI'm not sure about those milk bottles, but in Germany the "Mehrwegpfandsystem" typically gets 40 to 50 cycles from a glass bottle and up to 25 cycles out of a PET bottle. Unfortunately, this system has been on the decline in recent years and customers often choose single-use plastic bottles.
- LargoLasskhyfv 6y agoDepending on where you return them, the Mehrweg PET ones just get shredded. You can hear that. Sometimes I heard glass getting crushed too, but that was a few years ago. Not recently.