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In 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,
by lillecarl 5y ago
In 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.