The word "returnable" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something which can be returned or sent back. For example, "The store only accepts returnable items within 14 days of purchase."
As one researcher from the Midwest Research Institute, an engineering research firm, wrote in 1969, "the powerful motive force behind the development of the throw-away container market is the fact that each returnable bottle displaced from the market means the sale of 20 non-returns".
Most drinks are also sold in returnable glass bottles, which are cheaper than cans.Although many Africans are poor, they are willing to pay for what they need.
His fee for performing is 150,000 Irish guineas, payable on October 1st in the year the mare is covered but, unlike the case with his father, the fee is returnable should the mare prove to be barren.The stallion business has become very big indeed and Coolmore is one of the most successful stud farms in the world.
But it is expensive: DFB's members are paying in 1p a litre, returnable only if they retire or quit, to finance its expansion.
They do not choose that milk should be sold in disposable packages rather than returnable bottles or that goods come with unnecessary packaging.Furthermore, the notion that direct payment will reduce waste has been dispelled in Belgium.
One government is said to be paying for its order of French fighters in returnable bonds: if the product does not come up to expectations, the supplier does not get paid.Yet the sheer volume of exhibitors at the arms fair, known as IDEX, suggests that there are still rich pickings to be had in the Gulf.
Cites various statistics regarding the growth of such industries as the non-returnable soda bottle, the synthetic-fibre industry, & the production of chlorine.
All material is generally non-returnable.
Visa You can apply for a tourist visa at the Iranian consulate in London (Kensington Court, London W8, tel: 020-7937 5225), for a non-returnable fee of £40.
The third-seed sails through 6-3, 6-0, 6-0, his course buoyed by a warm rush of aces and un-returnable serves.
This month, Environmentalists for Europe, the cross-party group co-chaired by Johnson senior, called on the EU to ban non-returnable bottles.
