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There's an easy solution. Put a deposit (tax) on bottles, that gets refunded when the bottle gets recycled. If it's worth a 10 cent "sin tax" for me to chuck a
by wisty 17y ago
There's an easy solution. Put a deposit (tax) on bottles, that gets refunded when the bottle gets recycled.
If it's worth a 10 cent "sin tax" for me to chuck a Cola bottle away, the that's my choice. If somebody can sort my garbage (because they really need the money, or they have a high-tech robot that can sort trash really well, or whatever else), then they win as well.
- parboman 17y agothis is already done in Sweden.
- marknutter 17y agoTurning an entire nation of people into homeless bottle collectors. Genius. Maybe everyone could get a government issued grocery cart too.
- jkmcf 17y agoIt's done in the US as well, though mostly in the East, I think.