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In Denmark, you pay a little extra for the bottle itself when you buy a soda, you get that money back when you return the bottle to the store for recycling. Thi
by dusted 6y ago
In Denmark, you pay a little extra for the bottle itself when you buy a soda, you get that money back when you return the bottle to the store for recycling.
This provides a nice enough incentive for people to generally not throw bottles, and it provides an nice extra income for kids and others who collect the bottles that do get tossed. I bought my first ethernet card with money spent collecting bottles at a concert (I hauled 4 large trash bags, worth about $100 in a single evening).
I don't get why this is not how everybody does it.
- 93po 6y agoEvery state I've lived in in the US is the same way, except virtually no one still bothers
- makoConstruct 6y agoSounds like they should raise the bond, then?
- RickJWagner 6y agoThis is exactly how I got pinball money as a kid. Kids today could collect bottles and aluminum cans for money, but for many the payback is too little. Who wants to slog through ditches to make quarters when the iPhone brings entertainment to you for free?