18 May 2006
Not easy being green

At least you can reuse wine bottles in California: in Indiana it's illegal to reuse milk bottles or egg cartons without practically remanufacturing them. Or even glass jars. In fact, it's probably prohibitively expensive to reuse any commercial packaging, commercially. And I've got wonder how much of the notorious waste generated by the packaging industry is really an effect of these insane governmental "health regulations".

Or maybe I should be wondering how much the packaging industry paid the legislatures to put them in place.

Once upon a time, the eco-friendly practice of reusing wine bottles was commonplace. So why has it fallen by the wayside?

(link) [Los Angles Times]

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