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

All beer bottles here in Ontario, Canada are recycled. Something like 98% reuse. And all liquor, spirits and wine bottles can be recycled at the same store (dunno how many are reused vs. just recycled). So its not like the infrastructure can’t exist or work. And you can get milk in 1L glass bottles now that you return for a deposit.

I’d be totally down for all juices and sodas to go back to glass bottles. Which, might be sooner than we thought given that Canada just made most single use plastics outlaw come December. But pop and juice bottles here are typically the bulk of our blue bin plastics that ARE successfully recycled, so who knows.