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Contemporary glass bottles break easily. But historically bottles were much thicker and could be re-used dozens of times.
by timClicks 6y ago
Contemporary glass bottles break easily. But historically bottles were much thicker and could be re-used dozens of times.
- dathinab 6y agoIn Germany you can buy milk in glass bottles in some super markets and they don't brake easily. And not only can they be reused, broken glass bottles can still be recycled.
- mrec 6y agoBeer too IIRC - you can buy it by the crate and return the empties to get a meaningful deposit back.
- Xylakant 6y agoThough most of the deposit for returning a beer crate is on the crate. The deposit for a regular beer bottle is 8cents - it used to be 15Pfennig, cut in half when the EUR was introduced. The problem is that you cannot easily raise the deposit value of a bottle and inflation has taken most of the value away.
- mrec 6y agoAh, I was there pre-Euro.