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Glass bottles can be re-used, not recycled. That's how milk was delivered when I was a kid. Milkman took the empty bottles.
by dboreham 3y ago
Glass bottles can be re-used, not recycled. That's how milk was delivered when I was a kid. Milkman took the empty bottles.
- blacksmith_tb 3y agoFor sure, I know in Germany reuse of beer bottles is still common, if not without a few gotchas[1]. Clearly one advantage of glass and paper both is that they are not nearly as polluting as plastics when the aren't recycled, glass is just silica, paper breaks down pretty quickly. 1: https://www.dw.com/en/german-beer-producers-running-out-of-bottles/a-44778328 https://www.dw.com/en/german-beer-producers-running-out-of-b...