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 Switzerland, plastic bottles, I.e. PET bottles, are recycled into new bottles. It’s a closed cycle with huge benefits.

https://www.petrecycling.ch/de/home

Some numbers:

34 million liters of petroleum oil reduction
126000 tonnes of greenhouse gas reduction

And that’s from a small country with only 8.x million habitants. Like a tad more than 2% from the US population.

So you could reduce oil and greenhouse gas emissions by almost 50 times that for the US.

That’s over 1.5 billion liters of oil and over 50’000’000 tonnes of greenhouse gases.

Seriously, this should be mandatory world wide.