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Just make the bottles stronger. I understand there will be some game theoretic problems with that though, which seems to be a big problem right now...
by WhisperingShiba 5y ago
Just make the bottles stronger. I understand there will be some game theoretic problems with that though, which seems to be a big problem right now...
- Jeff_Brown 5y agoGame theoretic problems? Could you elaborate?
- WhisperingShiba 5y agoThe company who is able to get away with making the cheapest bottles which breaks the most, still benefits from other companies which are contributing to a recycled glass availability pool. The incentives are such that companies are trying to make the crappiest, least recycled bottle from virgin material, since there is no guarantee they will get a bottle they manufactured, back at the plant.
- klyrs 5y agoIncreasing the wall thickness of a pressure vessel has rapidly diminishing returns (especially in a brittle material like glass), increasing shipping weight for very little benefit. On the other hand, scanning for defects in reprocessing is easily automated with very low marginal costs.