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 worked for a bottling company (Coke) at the end of the “return for deposit” era. It was a mess and cost a lot of money to handle all those dirty recycled coke bottles. Both at the distributer and at the grocery store that had to take them back.

The Corning Glass company made a very big deal about their “non returnable/ please recycle” thin glass bottles for soda. Then Plastic blow bottles came in.