Interesting Links for 20-08-2015
Aug. 20th, 2015 12:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewducker- From 2016 you will no longer be able to return Irn Bru bottles.
- I'm curious as to how the economics of this work. Is it really cheaper to make new bottles than to wash old ones?
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Date: 2015-08-20 11:26 pm (UTC)Presumably, the shopkeep wants a kickback for his additional infrastructure requirements, logistics, storage, and training costs
so if you get 20p back on a bottle, maybe the shopkeep wants 21p. You'll have to pay an accountant to track all of that, on a bottle-by-bottle basis
you have to pay a delivery driver and fuel a truck to bring all the bottles back
go round all the shops and pick up maybe one or two bottles from each one
(logging the numbers for the accountant all the while)
when the truck is eventually full, you need to drive it to a depot somewhere that has a receiving station
(paying for the fuel and the driver while you do)
at the depot, someone needs to check over all the bottles to discard the ones that are chipped or cracked
(I doubt AIVR is up to task on this, but it's been a while since I AIVRed personally)
then you need to wash all the bottles
actually, you need to sterilize all the bottles
there's no way the label is staying on if you do that, so you need to affix a new label
and then you can fill it with fresh Bru.
OR ALTERNATIVELY you can make a new bottle, and you already own a bottling plant.
Besides, everybody recycles these days.