It’s done less and less because recycling plastic bottles is better.
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Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days agoIt used to be done a lot more before and some places still do it in Europe. You return the glass bottle intact, they reuse it as is. Only carbon spent is in transporting it.
Aux@lemmy.world 4 days ago
RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Yes (I actually live in Europe), but it cannot be reused indefinitely and needs to be recycled after about 50 uses (that’s why I mentioned the whole life cycle of a bottle). Also, glass breaks.
RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
Well, you also have to clean them which I assume also uses energy. And they need to be fulfilling “food-grade” cleaning requirements since you want to drink out of them, so that’s probably more energy needed than a simple wash in soap.
Frokke@lemmings.world 3 days ago
This is done regardless of the source of the glass. IE fresh or reused glass gets the same cleaning treatment.