Even if you bring them to your local recycling center, plastic jugs and bottles for detergents, household cleaning agents and personal hygiene products (e.g., shampoo, shower/bath soap, lotions) are an incredible waste. Here's an idea for making your bottles work forever: Have direct filling stations where liquid soaps, made of all natural ingredients, are held in tanks. Consumers would bring their empty bottles to the refilling stations. Because they won't be transported en masse, the bottles could be made of glass. The contents could also be customized, say, with natural scents. Laundry detergent could be sold the way paint is, with the formulas for different varieties programmed by computer. So, say, you could make gardenia scented wool soap using the same base you use for dish detergent. Or you could add ingredients to a shampoo base to make it more suitable for oily, dry or fine hair.
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Although this no doubt conserves use and eliminates a lot of waste it is a return to the system of containing goods in the early 20th century and huge advertising and merchandising industries have grown up about containers and product competition. Major merchandising changes would have to be made and this seems very unlikely.
that's right: it's not likely to happen precisely because we have built our economy on fossil fuels and waste.