Why aren’t bottlers (soda/beer/wine) reusing glass/plastic bottles like milk bottlers were in the ’50s.

Question

Is it a major loss in profit or do current bottles make it impossible?

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Answer 1

In Japan there are still milk delivery men that deliver and collect in glass bottles. Obviously it’s a dying tradition though.

Large sake bottles (1.8L) and large beer bottles used in restaurants (500/630ml) are also collected (or you can bring them back yourself) which grants you a small return fee (10 yen) per bottle and the bottles then get washed and reused.