Why can’t companies just sanitize and refill them?
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When I was a child, we did this here in the States. Your “pop bottles” were all returnable/refundable. You would buy a six-pack of Pepsi or Mountain Dew or whatever your soft drink of choice was and then drink them. The empty bottles were put back into the six pack flat and returned to the grocery store where you would get a nickel back for each one (some states gave more, and those were usually listed on the top of the bottle). The bottling company would pick them up, sanitize and refill them at their plant. We did this all the time. I had an uncle who would go along the road side and collect unbroken refundable bottles for spare change (he was just a kid at the time, too).
I seem to recall this phasing out sometime in the early to mid-80s with the onset of plastic bottles and aluminum cans becoming more popular. I’d say storing bottles for this purpose takes up a lot of real estate and probably isn’t as efficient as just manufacturing new plastic bottles and aluminum cans.
Good memories, though….
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