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Aren't modern bottles designed for that too? Atleast here, you return them to the store, get some money back, and they wash and refill them
by ajsnigrutin 5y ago
Aren't modern bottles designed for that too? Atleast here, you return them to the store, get some money back, and they wash and refill them
- lillecarl 5y agoIn Sweden we sort them by colored or translucent, they'll be smashed and reheated to be made into brand new bottles. Haven't seen used bottles in quite awhile, not sure if it's good or bad.
- dragontamer 5y agoThat's how its normally done in the USA as well. Brown, Green, and Transparent glass gets sorted, smashed, and melted back down into new bottles.
- emodendroket 5y agoI was collecting some bottles and after trying 5 grocery stores who all told me they don't accept bottle returns (happy to collect the "deposit fee" though!) I gave up and threw them away in the regular recycling bin.
- llampx 5y agoIn Germany you must accept returns and give back the deposit if you sell bottles or cans that have the deposit attached.
- emodendroket 5y agoWhat a concept, maybe our legislators could do something useful for a change and make similar rules.
- flipbrad 5y agoGermany has a bottle return scheme. It's common for your (glass) bottle of beer or sparkling water to have significant wear marks where it's been rubbing against neighbours in a crate.
- lillecarl 5y agoWe used to have it as well, I remember from when I was a kid. It says on Wikipedia that we replaced the glass bottles with PET mostly. So I guess we have the same scheme, but not on the same scale anymore (one bottle supposedly gets reused 40 times on average). Though the rare ones I get I just throw in the glass recycling that'll be crushed, made into new bottles and insulation material.
- guerrilla 5y agoI've seen super scratched up glass Loka bottles in cafeterias... I wonder if they were used.
- Spooky23 5y agoIn the US, the beverage companies hired people to conclude that washing bottles uses more energy/carbon/etc than disposable containers. Walmart used this as an argument for styrofoam cups.
- mrpopo 5y agoWhich is just a scapegoat problem, shifting the mind away from the original problem - disposable containers creating large amounts of waste that mostly end up in landfills, or worse, scattered in nature. The energy use of washing bottles was never a concern. The energy use of transporting heavy bottles was largely offset by globalizing beverage production.
- lm28469 5y ago> beverage companies hired people to conclude Same people who concluded sodas are healthy I assume