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Re:Plastic recycling is a problem consumers can't solve by supertrope on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @02:28PM (#17410573)
Recycling is only economically viable if:

cost of production from raw material > production from recycled material

and

value of recycle material > cost of recycling

My guess on milk bottles is some kind of sanitation and product liability issue.

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Re:Plastic recycling is a problem consumers can't solve by emodendroket on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @04:20PM (#17411496)
Yeah, except you can pull the policy levers to change the results.
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