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It used to be milk came in a glass bottle. You didn't chuck the bottle in the trash or recycle when empty, you gave it back to the dairy who washed and reused it. There was a bottle deposit fee to encourage returns.

We could easily do this now with a lot of plastic packaging. Low effort way to cut down on microplastics.

Grocery stores could act as central collection points for all kinds of containers.

Too far to ship them back to manufacturers? Buy local.

A.A.Ron 5mo ago

I remember using returnable plastic milk jugs in Wisconsin in the late 80's/early 90's. They were 1 gallon, square and made of thick plastic with a sturdy folding handle on top. We also had returnable, brown glass beer bottles up until '05. There's no technical challenges preventing this. It's mostly just consumer preference.

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Bill Cypher 4mo ago

We all thought disposable plastic was easier and cheaper. Now we know it costs us more and requires more work than we thought.

Mistakes happen, but once you figure them out you have to change. We did it with lead and asbestos. We can do it again.