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

I used to be a milk deliverer in Australia in the 90’s and we still reused glass milk bottles. Every so often someone would find a chip of broken glass in their milk and they’d have to do a huge recall and suffer massive reputational damage because it’s the stuff of children’s nightmares. Eventually they just switched to single-use cartons.
You can’t control what has happened to that bottle in someone’s house, so the risk of there being cracks or chips or the like is hard to manage