just another little thought...................surely it costs more and uses more energy for the glass to be smashed and then recycled.......why aren't our glass bottles simply refilled, just like the milkman does

I know Del. WE seem to be going bloody backwards. I bet many of us can recall taking back the empties to get some dosh when we were skint

yup I remember taking pop bottles back to the corner shop

and something else occurred to me today...........................what is the point in recycling our rubbish if we don't buy recycled goods

We used to have a Corona Man - Juice Terry he was called in Porn by Irvine Walsh Called my mate Juice Terry cos is drinks Corona Lager - he doesn't like it

both

clearing up after sportsday was very popular at boarding school ... by returning all the coke bottles etc ... kept us in sweets for the rest of the term

I though most of the glass these days was recycled into making roads!!

Our local glass factory, now unfortunately closed due to cheap imports from Indonesia , used to stock recycled glass products, eg kitchen storage jars, wine glasses etc and they were really good. I've still got all mine from years ago. I make jewellery with recycled glass beads from India as well

I bought a load metal beads from somewhere in Africa and they were made with old aluminium pans

you can always rely on Africa to recycle everything!!

Good beads though

local bottling place used to smash so many of its product to put back through the processs as it made the makeing of more easyer that useing just pure stuff that they made it from always had me wondering wht they were doing makeing em then brakeing em

The reason Del is that the glass proved to hard to clean to todays high standards which is why most of it is now in plastic which is also cheaper and easier to recycle.

The other problem is an increased risk of breakage with re-used bottles during cleaning, refilling and transport all the way to your fridge and if there is one thing sure to kill sales of anything it is the risk you might apply, eat or drink a bit of glass!

Josh nearly swallowed a glass of water... literally... it slipped and he tried to keep hold of it wiht his teeth!!! Thankfully, he let it go and it smashed into bits in the basin rather than him biting off a large chunk like i remember his uncle did a few times...........!