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2. Reusable packaging - Wikipedia

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   A reusable package or container is "designed for reuse without impairment of its protective function." [ 1 ] The term returnable is sometimes used interchangeably but it can also include returning packages or components for other than reuse: recycling , disposal, incineration, etc. Typically, the materials used to make returnable packaging ...

3. Got milk -- containers? Schools seeking options amid shortage

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   Oct. 31—WATERTOWN — Area school districts are scrambling for alternatives due to a national shortage of half-pint milk containers. The iconic boxy containers have been a school staple for ...

4. Plastic milk container - Wikipedia

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   Many milk bottles have integral handles. Milk bags are also in use. The milk is sold in a plastic bag and put into a pitcher for use. Larger bags are the inner bladder of a bag-in-box, sometimes used for institutional dispensing. Small individual containers of milk and cream are often thermoformed or injection molded and have a peelable lid ...

5. Bottle recycling - Wikipedia

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   A key factor with glass milk bottles is the number of cycles of uses to be expected. Breakage, contamination, or other loss reduces the benefits of returnables. A key factor with one-way recyclables is the recycling rate: In the US, only about 30-35% of high-density polyethylene bottles are recycled.

6. Glass milk bottle - Wikipedia

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   A modern British milk bottle owned by Dairy Crest Pint and half gallon returnable glass bottles From the second half of the 19th century, milk has been packaged and delivered in reusable and returnable glass bottles. They are used mainly for doorstep delivery of fresh milk by milkmen. Once customers have finished the milk, empty bottles are expected to be rinsed and left on the doorstep for ...

7. Closed-loop box reuse - Wikipedia

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   Reuse of. boxes and other containers has been common for many years. For example, the automotive industry has long used reusable racks, totes, and boxes. [4] One type of “closed loop box reuse” was used by Jack D. and James F. Wilson, coinventors of supportive devices developed to keep cardboard box flaps closed or held open without the use of tape. [5]