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Many of my fiends in Germany get them delivered and they take the empty bottles back, others bring them home in crates and similarly just take the crates back t

Many of my fiends in Germany get them delivered and they take the empty bottles back, others bring them home in crates and similarly just take the crates back to the store when they return. A lot of bottling is done locally (as it is in the US as well actually) so the bottles themselves aren't traveling that far. My impression is that this system works quite well.

Markoff 4y ago
> Many of my fiends in Germany get them delivered and they take the empty bottles back And I assume this is done by charity for free, right? It works well if you don't mind spending lot of extra money for fixing the inconvenience of heavy glass bottles, which is not really solving any problem considering recycling rate in developed (EU) countries especially on plastic bottles. The effect of those few plastic bottles which won't get properly recycled is next to zero compared to other issues (let's look for instance at hypochondriacs using tons of respirators, usually very same people complaining about other people polluting enviroment), I suggest anyone who think glass bottles or plastic bottles with deposit are good ideas in developed EU to visit South East Asia to see how meaningless are these efforts.