The German plastic bottle system is pretty good. The plastic bottles are thick, heavy duty, re-useable, and you get ten cents for each one you bring back to the shop. You put them in a machine, and they are brought back to the plant, cleaned and actually re-used. When you buy a bottle of whatever, sometimes you can actually see that it's not a new bottle cause of the dings and scrapes, and no one minds. They do the same with glass beer bottles.