> then they are washed and refilled by the bottler.
Source? I highly doubt they're washing and reusing plastic bottles.
Source? I highly doubt they're washing and reusing plastic bottles.
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Right now I’m making a product that should last 10 years outdoors. I wanted to pick PET or HDPE for their high recyclability, but if it leads to a shorter product lifespan (and all the opportunities to drop out of the recycling stream), what’s the point? Our plan is use a more rugged plastic and take back old product ourselves to recycle, only because we have a willing injection molder.
ABS is one of the most commonly used plastics and very unrecyclable, but it might be more acceptable if the electronics in it were supported for more than 3 years.
First sentence in the article:
>Germany has the world’s largest and highest-performing deposit return system (DRS, also known as a deposit return scheme)
later it says
>In a few years, the market share of refillable containers fell below this quota, and so a DRS for single-use containers was established in January 2003.
A lot of bottlers use reusable bottles, thick walled bottles (15ct deposit) that are sold in crates. For a lot of soft drinks and water they tend to be made from PET (because it’s lighter than Glass).
Don’t get me started on the German habit of buying water in crates rather than using perfectly fine tap water
Then you also have thin-walled PET bottles which are 25 ct deposit and one-use. Return rates are rather high because of the high deposit.
The crates are often a PITA to deal with because you need to return them to a shop that sells the same bottles (there are some standards, but some bottlers think a non-standard bottle is a USP). Whereas the 25ct bottles must be taken back from any store that sells 25ct bottles themselves.