It's Saturday morning, time to clear the carport of all those returnables. |
Since 2002, Toyota estimates a total savings of 273 million pounds of wood and 170 million pounds of cardboard from use of returnables. |
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. |
Businesses will have to handle more returnables and costs for all will increase. |
Depending on the parameters of the scheme's design and geography, the environmental cost of returnables can outweigh the benefits. |
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. |