This is weird
We are currently looking at the label on our 20 oz bottle of Diet Coke.
It reads, right above the bar code: "NO REFILL".
Err...who in their right minds would think of taking an empty soda
bottle to a store (or a manufacturer) and ask for a freaking refill?
Who needs to be told that once you drink the contents, the bottle is
trash? Who needs to be told you can't just buy one bottle and keep
refilling it for life?
Are we missing another possible meaning of the phrase?
Submitted by
L
at 1/7/2005 11:58:31 AM- ReviewGuru's analysis of why "No Refill" continues to appear is correct. In fact, there are still several states where glass bottles continue to be recycled, which means there still must be a small industry consisting of highway-side bottle collectors as in days past. Michigan and Maine stick in my mind as states with bottle recycling/refund programs--also Vermont.
Submitted by
nobody
at 1/7/2005 12:43:31 PM- we are quite used to the 5cents/10 cents for recycling notations on cans and bottles. Usually indicating which states, and never Missouri. But recycling and refilling are two different things. But maybe you're right.
Submitted by
Christy
at 1/11/2005 10:11:53 AM- I suspect that's what no refill means as well, however, I'd just like to point out that when you return bottles, you are actually not getting a discount on new bottles, but are actually recouping the "deposit" you paid for those empties when they were full.
I believe it is just something that has been kept on there as a throwback to times past. It is my understanding that in the old days, you would return the bottle to the store and get a discount on a new bottle. The company would take the old bottle, clean it and reuse it (recycling). This is still the practice in many foreign countries.