Date: 2023-06-07 01:50 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] channelpenguin
7. Glass is returnable here in Germany - but you only get 8c , you get 25 for a plastic bottle or aluminium can.

Date: 2023-06-07 01:58 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] dewline
Wishing that the same happened in Canada. Every plastic bottle: pop, fruit juice, ketchup/catsup, mustard, salad dressing, shampoo/body wash, and so on!

Date: 2023-06-07 06:40 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] bens_dad
7. I too remember deposits on glass bottles, and searching for discarded bottles to claim the deposit.

In 1978 the deposit on a "large" glass bottle - 10p - would buy a bag of crisps (7p or 8p).
I suppose the introduction of plastic bottles reduced the value of an empty glass bottle :-(

A year or two back I filled in a government survey on bottle-recycling. Worryingly to save space they were talking of crushing them. No problem for plastic or alumin(i)um but it is much more energy efficient to make a glass bottle from a similar bottle than from a pile of glass chippings.
I think I mentioned that recycling was the fifth of the "Six Rs": Refuse (decline), Reduce, Reuse, Repurpose, Recycle, Refuse (trash). Thus Reuse should be the aim.

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