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They've been doing this in Scotland for decades (50yrs?+), you take the glass bottle of IronBru or cola back to the shop or mobile-van-shop and you'd get 10p or
by kasdk 7y ago
They've been doing this in Scotland for decades (50yrs?+), you take the glass bottle of IronBru or cola back to the shop or mobile-van-shop and you'd get 10p or something back (it's probably 20p or more nowadays).
I also note in Poland and Czech Republic glass bottle beer always costs a little more than the sticker price so I presume there is some $$ in returning - a nice little tip for the airbnb cleaner after a month.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoThere is a deposit included in the price of most glass bottles in Poland, but there is also some mix of regulations and store practices that seems targeted at the poor/homeless, to prevent them from making money by collecting bottles in trash cans. I remember having stores refuse larger batches of return bottles without a proof they were originally bought at that particular store. Maybe someone else knows more details; it's just something I observed some years ago.
- Symbiote 7y agoPoor or homeless people collecting cans is widespread in Denmark. Teenagers especially seem to discard them if they're not at home. Many litter bins have a small shelf for bottles, to save people rooting around in the rubbish. Somehow, the fancy supermarket never has poor people returning the bottles at the machine, but the cheap one 200m away always does.
- KozmoNau7 7y agoProbably because the bottle collectors don't want to spend the money they get on overpriced luxury stuff, so they prefer the discount store where the prices are better.