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Here in Germany there are deposits on plastic bottles for things like coke. The bottles are more sturdy and get re-used multiple times.
by moconnor 4y ago
Here in Germany there are deposits on plastic bottles for things like coke. The bottles are more sturdy and get re-used multiple times.
- ftyers 4y agoThat's cool, is it mandated by law or did it just work out as more economical?
- oblio 4y agoKnowing the Germans, it's a law.
- coding123 4y agoWhat happens if someone poops in the bottle and then recycles it. I guess that's just the American in me probably. Probably why those efforts die here.
- ftyers 4y agoI guess you'd smell it? And if not does it really matter? Probably you'd be surprised at how much you poop you consume, both your own and other people's or animal's.
- ThrowawayTestr 4y agoI imagine the bottles are cleaned before refilling.
- joseda-hg 4y agoEverything should be sterilized by the bottler before reusing, but I'm guessing that any bottle to suffer that destiny would be discarded either by the store owner, the pick up crew, or the bottling facility It's pretty similar in my country
- romski 4y agoPlastic and glass is ground up
- oblio 4y agoDoes it matter? You need to sterilize it anyway, because of the other million environmental factors.