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Got your points, interesting.

I just wanted to add to your last paragraph that we are paying 25ct per one-way plastic bottle on top of the regular price, we get it back when we return the bottle. That means the return rate is super high, because otherwise people will lose a lot of money. I think the system is quite good.

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Same in Scandinavia. I do agree it works well, and it's critical in order to make reuse cost effective, because consider that if you were to have only 10% of bottles not being returned, then that means 10% of bottles are never even available to reuse even once, of the 90% reused, you'd expect 10% (so 9 percentage points) are never reused twice, and so on - drastically driving down the average number of reuses possible even if you assume every returned bottle is perfect.

As far as I can tell return rates in Germany, as in Scandinavia, are much higher than 90% - up to 99% for some categories, so it likely is high enough to be worth it.

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