BBCNEWS Coca Colas 100 Billion Bottle... October 27, 2021 02:32:00
You would get two cents back when you returned the bottle. coca—cola would collect the bottles, wash and re—use them. when the beverage producers were selling refillable bottles, they had to pay for the costs of operations associated with getting the bottles back, washing them, refilling them, etc. voiceover: let's put 'em back in the rack, mac! - and then along came plastic. when single use packaging was presented to them, they realised that they could effectively externalise all of those management costs onto the municipalities. voiceover: you'll love them. and that is why it looked like...
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