Soda used to be sold in glass bottles. Most places that sold soda would give you a penny for the returned bottle, which they would then return to the bottler to be refilled. Those of us that understood the value of this idea would go around looking for discarded bottles to return to the stores for money for "penny candy" Those that had wagons would even go door to door asking for empties which would often turn up enough cash for candy, a soda and maybe even a comic book.
The bottles were returned and refilled. Even the cases that the sodas were delivered in were used until they wore out, which was a long time because they were actually made of wood, from an actual tree, before the days of plastic.
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