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

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.