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wolfy42 posted...

I am not sure why they are not re-using the plastic from them, but I don't see any reason they could not do so.

Part of the issue is that the plastic in those bottles is really cheap and breaks down over the course of a couple years, limiting their reusability, but the biggest issue is that reusing them would mean the companies would have to collect them. Back when glass bottles were the norm, Coca Cola used to pick up returned bottles and wash and refill them. Now, though, it's significantly cheaper for them to just produce new plastic bottles than to pay for a driver and gas to go pick up used ones to reuse. If there were to be a reuse program, the cost of shipping the used bottles back to the companies would likely fall to the consumer, which means most people would never bother.
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