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Milk testing laboratory, Wisconsin dairy school (1894). A few Babcock bottles are on the counter, just below center. A Babcock bottle is a clear glass flask with a long graduated neck, used in the Babcock test to evaluate the cream contents of milk. [1]
The reuse of containers is often thought of as being a step toward more sustainable packaging. Reuse sits high on the waste hierarchy. When a container is used multiple times, the material required per use or per filling cycle is reduced. Many potential factors are involved in environmental comparisons of returnable vs. non-returnable systems.
Reuse is the action or practice of using an item, whether for its original purpose (conventional reuse) or to fulfill a different function (creative reuse or repurposing). It should be distinguished from recycling , which is the breaking down of used items to make raw materials for the manufacture of new products.
Venice Biennale installation by Małgorzata Mirga-Tas (2022) - artistic upcycling of old textile materials. While recycling usually means the materials are remade into their original form, e.g., recycling plastic bottles into plastic polymers, which then produce plastic bottles through the manufacturing process, upcycling adds more value to the materials, as the name suggested.
Diagram of a vacuum flask Gustav Robert Paalen, Double Walled Vessel. Patent 27 June 1908, published 13 July 1909. The vacuum flask was designed and invented by Scottish scientist James Dewar in 1892 as a result of his research in the field of cryogenics and is sometimes called a Dewar flask in his honour.
Skin bottle made of goat leather A leather waterskin from the Judean desert, dating back to 132–135 CE. Depiction of a waterskin bearer in Persepolis. A waterskin is a receptacle used to hold water.
An Erlenmeyer flask, also known as a conical flask (British English) [1] or a titration flask, is a type of laboratory flask with a flat bottom, a conical body, and a cylindrical neck. It is named after the German chemist Emil Erlenmeyer (1825–1909), who invented it in 1860.
A blue reusable shopping bag String bag with shopping items Wheeled shopping trolley bags. A reusable shopping bag, sometimes called a bag for life in the UK, [1] [2] is a type of shopping bag which can be reused many times, in contrast to single-use paper or plastic shopping bags.