date:Sep 30, 2018
When I first read an article on NPR about Oregon's refillable beer bottle system, where heavy bottles can be washed and reused by any brewery without being recycled, I thought I'd write about containers that used to commonly be refilled but no longer are. I started thinking about containers like milk bottles that the milkman would pick up when he dropped off your milk or Charles Chips tins that could be taken to the deli and refilled with potato chips.
Then I realized that's just nostalgia. The