| Depending on the parameters of the scheme's design and geography, the environmental cost of returnables can outweigh the benefits. |
| Businesses will have to handle more returnables and costs for all will increase. |
| In recent years many groceries have installed automatic bottle and can return machines that shift the job of sorting and counting returnables to the consumer. |
| The company also asked its wholesalers to retrieve the returnables filled on the same line the day before and the day after, so that the beer could be tested. |
| While cases of returnables are still circulating in the trade, it will be only a matter of months before the last Huber returnables make their final trip. |
| Since 2002, Toyota estimates a total savings of 273 million pounds of wood and 170 million pounds of cardboard from use of returnables. |
