Solving Plastic Ep. 3 | The System That Can Completely Eliminate Single-Use Bottles

Double Mountain Brewery teamed up with eight other Oregon-based breweries to design a standardized, refillable glass bottle that can be refilled and used over and over again. What can the world learn from their system?
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[@reusablesolutions9217]

I love this! I'm doing a program in Vermont with reusable can carriers. This is my next step. Fingers crossed.

[@camis.1347]

So nice to see someone care about the planet to do this! A few months ago was chatting in an eco-friendly group about all the glass bottles thrown out by bars, restaurants, wineries, vineyards, etc and how we should be doing a refill program in each county to take care of this.

[@karinheath2423]

Love this ~ leave it to Oregon breweries to sort it out! When I traveled in East Africa 30 years ago, they did this with all their soda. We need to expand this program so it's the new normal!

[@Fluffcat65]

This is totally common in Germany and has been for many years. Works just fine!

[@kathleen6288]

But this is the US and we get it right, after we have exhausted every possible way of doing it wrong. That's US in a nutshell.

[@tuckerbugeater]

@@kathleen6288 Germany's beer is boring because they control every ingredient that goes into it. USA was vibrant before libs took over.

[@TroyRalph-TomkenRoadMS]

Late to the party on that. We have been doing this in Ontario Canada for as long as I can remember. 97% of bottles are returned and refilled in Ontario Canada. Finally glad you have adopted this well-established system but it is not anything that is new. Sorry to break it to ya.

[@Octoschizare]

I was about to post this comment if it wasn't already here. Been done for decades.

[@Dedepouilleur]

same in Denmark, since 2010 at least (glass and plastic bottles)

[@beckmordini4785]

Yes, as they said, the bottle bills started in the US in 1971. The interesting story is how the plastic industry got US to stop the deposit/refill system. The innovation from the brewery is a standardized bottle that can be reused by many different breweries- which is probably something we used to as well. But a unique bottle is part of the marketing ...

[@tomleonard6079]

When I was a kid. All bottles were reused - including coke and pepsi. You paid a deposit the first time and then just brought your bottles back to the store and applied the credit for the returned bottles to the new ones. Delivery drivers picked up the empties from the stores as the delivered fresh product. Their trucks were alway full and there was no litter. I'm glad to se reuse coming back.

[@lisderoa]

And you arrive now? In Argentina the beer bottles are reused. You go to the supermarket with the empty bottles so you don't have to pay for the bottle. If you don't have an empty bottle you pay the beer and also the bottle. And this has decades in use.

[@reusablesolutions9217]

Hey man, we're jealous. At least I am. USA is a "special" place

[@tuckerbugeater]

@@reusablesolutions9217 Argentina enjoys hyperinflation too.

[@paddyfinnegan134]

When I was a kid in Plymouth, Devon, all the driks we could buy were in deposit-secured glass bottles, and when we returned them we either got the next one cheaper or our money back. Everything was recycled. Our milk was delivered by electric vehicles in deposit-secured glass bottles as well, by a nationwide fleet of purely electric vehicles. That was 50 years ago. How did we go so wrong??

[@beepboop1391]

Hoping my state joins in soon. Thanks for the video!

[@kimnoreenanderson]

What a great idea!

[@zbynekcodykolacek]

Nothing new in Czechoslovakia, Czech Rep. now. Since I remember, 50years, we are returning glass bottles of anything…, beer, milk, lemonade, wine and I remember even a yogurt in returnable glassware. Some liquor has returnable bottles too, the cheap ones. Expensive ones nope.

[@Cataly_st]

Love this idea.

[@rennylin]

I hope more places and/or beverage companies could also do the same!

[@sirdeadlock]

Now they just need to figure something out for the bottle caps.

[@blackbearelectronicswithco9541]

We could also do this with plastic! We would need thicker bottles made of 100% recycled content

[@HebaruSan]

Are any beers actually sold in plastic containers? Every one I can think of already uses glass or metal.

[@urvashisangwan8858]

The point is reusing the same bottles. Therefore, the breweries need not produce new bottles. That's how it creates a positive impact on the environment.

[@karentolstrup2015]

Maine also has a bottle bill

[@aarononeal9830]

Please talk about Ecosia they are a search engine that plants tress

[@deljay1840]

You talk about ecosia

[@StoryofStuff]

We love Ecosia!

[@tuckerbugeater]

don't drink beer. problem solved.