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Re:The truth about soft plastic recycling points by PaulDavisThe1st on Monday May 26, 2025 @12:49PM (#44099123)
And in the USA, at least, glass containers that could be re-used are instead crushed and then either (a) used to create new glass, significantly more energetically costly than re-use OR (b) used for applications like asphalt.
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Re:The truth about soft plastic recycling points by sroussey on Monday May 26, 2025 @01:14PM (#44099394)
Erewhon is a grocery store in LA and makes its own sauces. You return the bottles back to the store and they reuse them.

Reminds me of my childhood when a milkman delivered milk to your home in bottles and you washed and left the old bottles for him to pick up. (Plus, as a kid, you would tease your friends that the milkman was your real father).

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Re:The truth about soft plastic recycling points by AStonesThrow on Monday May 26, 2025 @10:00PM (#44103290)
Straus Family Creamery uses glass bottles for many products, and the farmer's market refunds a $3 deposit when they're returned. The bottle caps are plastic, and there's an address where you can send them by mail.

https://www.strausfamilycreamery.com/sustainable-manufacturi...

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Re:The truth about soft plastic recycling points by wkat4242 on Monday May 26, 2025 @10:42PM (#44103509)
Sending a few bottle caps by mail probably causes more environmental pollution than sending them back (after which still even more energy needs to be spent to recycle them).
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