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Re:Trash piles up in US as China closes door to recycling by TeMPOraL on Friday August 03, 2018 @01:26PM (#17681700)
It can be done. Two years ago I've seen it done with Coca-Cola bottles in Germany. They'd have those thick bottles with visible scratches coming from cleaning and reuse. About the same time as I first discovered this practice, they abandoned it for some reason; on my next trip, I found only regular, single-use bottles. To this day I wonder about the reasons behind this change.
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Re:Trash piles up in US as China closes door to recycling by obmelvin on Friday August 03, 2018 @02:52PM (#17682543)
> It's relatively hard to sanitize PET because tiny defects hold contaminants really well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyethylene_terephthalate#PET.... Also I would guess that the defects add up over time and you'd need a way to test each bottle's integrity before shipping it out again.

From your sibling comment. Just reposting since you might not other see it and it seems to address your question. Well, assuming these bottles are made from the same sort of plastic.

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Re:Trash piles up in US as China closes door to recycling by spacenick88 on Friday August 03, 2018 @02:48PM (#17682495)
German here, it depends on the chain of super market and some other factors but multi-use Coca Cola bottles are definitely still a thing.
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