This morning I went into town with my host father to get drinks for a party later today. We put three crates of empty glass soda bottles in the car and headed out to exchange them.
When we got there, Godfrey got very frustrated and got back in the car to head home without getting any new bottles. Apparently there were two 7Up bottles mixed in with the other soda bottles. Our Coca Cola product filled crate was therefore contaminated with Pepsi products, making the exchange a no-go. We went home, switched out the 7Up for Fanta and Sprite, and went back to the store.
Later, I asked Godfrey about bottle exchange in this country. It is apparently about 60% more economical to exchange crates than to buy new ones. It is much cheaper for the factories to sterilize the bottles than to make new ones, so the incentive to return bottles is very high.
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