Why can’t companies just sanitize and refill them?
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It used to be common in the US for bottles to be cleaned and reused, but wider distribution networks and greater diversity of bottle types made that less and less cost effective as time went on.
There’s a big difference between a milk courier delivering milk and picking up empties to bring back to the dairy, and a supermarket that sells 300 kinds of bottled and jarred beverages needing to sort and store all those different types of containers.
Also, glass is one of the easiest and cheapest materials to recycle; that also helped push the financial tipping point.
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