Is it a major loss in profit or do current bottles make it impossible?
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I looked into this a while back and found the answer for Mexico at least: beverages in non-refillable bottles are taxed at a much higher rate than refillable ones.
In Mexico this ends up helping the large national and multinational companies that have local delivery and recovery infrastructure everywhere, such as Modelo or Coca Cola, and hurting smaller companies that have to send product over long distances and can’t pick up their bottles.
I would think that places like Germany that have more refillable bottles have some kind of policy preference in place that favors local breweries that can handle local pickup, which would have the benefit of favoring local production over imports. This may also explain the very high deposit on aluminum cans there, as most local breweries don’t use it.
As many people have noted, recycling, as opposed to refilling, is in place pretty much everywhere to different extents. In some places it even makes economic sense to recycle without a deposit.
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