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Queasy-Dirt3193 t1_ivvt6ja wrote
Reply to comment by IvanIsOnReddit in [OC] World's Largest Plastic Polluter Now 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference Sponsor by haboo213
Woah and reusing the bottles counts as recycling in this case. It’s expensive to do it, which is why most bottles are plastic.
IvanIsOnReddit t1_ivvtsdq wrote
Reusing is not the same as recycling. Recycling would be to melt down the glass and make a different bottle. Reusing is cleaning, sterilizing and maybe reprinting the bottle. Less energy intensive and the same supply chain that delivers the full bottles receives the empty ones. No empty delivery trucks on the way back. This has been done and proven before.
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