[iso1337]

Yeah, re-use is always preferable. It often goes against ever-increasing standard of hygiene.

It used to be common to collect used glass bottles and re-use them. That practice still happens in countries like Thailand and Vietnam.

[felix_nagaand]

Still happens in America today. I refilled a glass jug at a local brewery today. $5 deposit on a 750ml bottle, can return for the deposit or just leave it in the car and get it refilled at just about any brewery, even some liquor stores, restaurants and grocery stores.

[contingencies]

Better food distribution systems would also remove, for example, the need for personal motor vehicles, personal grocery trips, spatially inefficient retail spaces, the non-ideal refrigeration and other concerns deriving from food safety concerns in such spaces, and even individual package labeling.