Why do glass bottles have to be “recycled”?

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Why can’t companies just sanitize and refill them?

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Bottles have to be made strong enough to survive the turbulence of the distribution process. Advanced technology has created incredibly strong bottles, but efficiency dictates that you can’t make them so strong that they will cost more to make. So they do their job, but often lose their strength getting knocked around from the factory to the consumer. Figuring out which bottles retain their strength for another go and which ones have weakened adds a variable to the process that can be eliminated by recycling them to molten glass, repouring and maintaining quality control.

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