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Pretty much soft drinks come in PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottles, aluminium cans, or Tetrapack style cartons here in Norway. The cans and bottles have

Pretty much soft drinks come in PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottles, aluminium cans, or Tetrapack style cartons here in Norway. The cans and bottles have a deposit on them and every supermarket has a reverse vending machine which prints a voucher you redeem at the till. The cartons are collected along with cardboard and paper for recycling It's pretty rare to see any of these things discarded in the street. PET bottles and aluminium cans are much better than glass because they can be compacted for transport and subsequent recycling.

hilbert42 4y ago
That's the enlightened view that we've come to expect from Scandinavian countries but most of us in anglophone countries still haven't a clue about such masters. Every step along the way towards better environmental controls Big Business fights with paltry excuses. In such matters, our supposedly-elected representatives don't do our bidding but rather that of industry. Here, I've always considered my vote never to be a full vote but rather a half one with Big Business holding the other half. Right, our democracies are no longer such. On the matter of plastic being better than glass for compaction etc. Maybe so where you are but that argument falls flat when having to deal with wine bottles the vast majority of which across the world are still glass and are likely to remain so for the foreseeable future. Any return to glass for non alcoholic drinks would load onto and enlarge existing glass wine bottle disposal methods. That said, I'd equally include wine bottles in the deposit charge. This would stop tons of them ending up in landfill and eleswhere—the glass would then be recycled.
- kwhitefoot 4y ago
  Glass wine bottles are too variable for re-use and most of them come from other countries but all glass is recycled here, it goes into the same bin as metal. However, a lot of wine is now sold in bag in box or even in Tetrapack style cartons. These cartons and boxes are also recycled in the same bin as cardboard and paper, the plastic internal bag is separated by the consumer and a sack of plastic is collected by the local authority every two weeks.
bamboozled 4y ago
Pretty much every developed nation has came out and said their recycling process is just not actually recycling. Side note: I bought a Yetti Rambler(tm) insulated bottle, one of my favorite things in this world. I've not bought a bottled since.

hilbert42 4y ago

That's the enlightened view that we've come to expect from Scandinavian countries but most of us in anglophone countries still haven't a clue about such masters. Every step along the way towards better environmental controls Big Business fights with paltry excuses. In such matters, our supposedly-elected representatives don't do our bidding but rather that of industry. Here, I've always considered my vote never to be a full vote but rather a half one with Big Business holding the other half. Right, our democracies are no longer such. On the matter of plastic being better than glass for compaction etc. Maybe so where you are but that argument falls flat when having to deal with wine bottles the vast majority of which across the world are still glass and are likely to remain so for the foreseeable future. Any return to glass for non alcoholic drinks would load onto and enlarge existing glass wine bottle disposal methods. That said, I'd equally include wine bottles in the deposit charge. This would stop tons of them ending up in landfill and eleswhere—the glass would then be recycled.

kwhitefoot 4y ago
Glass wine bottles are too variable for re-use and most of them come from other countries but all glass is recycled here, it goes into the same bin as metal. However, a lot of wine is now sold in bag in box or even in Tetrapack style cartons. These cartons and boxes are also recycled in the same bin as cardboard and paper, the plastic internal bag is separated by the consumer and a sack of plastic is collected by the local authority every two weeks.

bamboozled 4y ago

Pretty much every developed nation has came out and said their recycling process is just not actually recycling. Side note: I bought a Yetti Rambler(tm) insulated bottle, one of my favorite things in this world. I've not bought a bottled since.