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Re:Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling indus... by timClicks on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @11:15PM (#24715320)
Contemporary glass bottles break easily. But historically bottles were much thicker and could be re-used dozens of times.
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Re:Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling indus... by dathinab on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @11:34PM (#24715438)
In Germany you can buy milk in glass bottles in some super markets and they don't brake easily.

And not only can they be reused, broken glass bottles can still be recycled.

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Re:Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling indus... by mrec on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @11:41PM (#24715496)
Beer too IIRC - you can buy it by the crate and return the empties to get a meaningful deposit back.
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Re:Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling indus... by Xylakant on Thursday October 08, 2020 @03:08AM (#24716654)
Though most of the deposit for returning a beer crate is on the crate. The deposit for a regular beer bottle is 8cents - it used to be 15Pfennig, cut in half when the EUR was introduced. The problem is that you cannot easily raise the deposit value of a bottle and inflation has taken most of the value away.
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Re:Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling indus... by mrec on Thursday October 08, 2020 @11:57AM (#24720343)
Ah, I was there pre-Euro.
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