Ho comprato due bottiglie di vetro di succo. Uno era con deposito (“pfand”) e uno senza. Sono curioso, qual è la differenza tra loro? L’ho chiesto anche al mio vicino tedesco: non lo sa. Reddit, forse puoi aiutarmi? 🙂
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The difference is that you paid a deposit for one, but not the other.
I worked in a drink section for a supermarket some time ago. My supposition is that the left bottle is without “pfand” because it is not a standard bottle but rather a “custom” bottle wich the “mosterei” used for this batch of drinks. The bottle on the right is a standard format wich gets used by other companies as well so it has pfand and gets reused.
The glass bottles with Pfand have standardized shapes. The one on the right is a standard juice bottle, the one on the left is some custom stuff.
You’ll notice that Pfand bottles all come in the same set of shapes. That goes for water, juice, beer and milk bottles.
The big glass bottles with Pfand also always have it embossed in the glass itself, so that they can remove the paper labels and then reuse them. Notice the lettering on the right just above the label. An additional hint are the whitish scratchmarks on the bottle. That’s were they bounce an roll on in the machines.
And as always there are some exceptions here and there, but this is how it works in general.