you know those little dots on the bottom of glass bottles? they shave one off every time it's recycled. whether it goes back to the original manufacturer or not, idk. but you can occasionally get recycled bottles with your drink.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

they shave one off every time it’s recycled

I suppose in this case, you would call it "reused"?
They are probably cleaned with boiling water and some chemicals before being refilled.

By "recycling", I would normally think of melting and reforming.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

i mean if we're splitting hairs, yeah. here reuse is typically talked about as the individual reusing, recycling as industry reusing/processing.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 19 hours ago

Yeah, that's another way it makes sense.
No way either word is going to match this case with both definitions.