Re:Recycling Chaos in U.S. As China Bans 'Foreign Waste'
by dazc on Sunday December 10, 2017 @12:22AM
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In the UK, back in the 70's we had a deposit scheme for glass bottles. And if you couldn't be bothered taking your bottles back to the store for a few pennies each you could be sure some local kid would be more than happy to do it for you.
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Re:Recycling Chaos in U.S. As China Bans 'Foreign Waste'
by genericlogic on Sunday December 10, 2017 @06:50AM
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I was going to post that the US does this, but more correctly some states do this. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container_deposit_legislatio...
Re:Recycling Chaos in U.S. As China Bans 'Foreign Waste'
by Sharlin on Sunday December 10, 2017 @06:28AM
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Uh, you don't have one now? In Finland the vast majority of glass or plastic beverage bottles and aluminum cans are under a national deposit system.
Re:Recycling Chaos in U.S. As China Bans 'Foreign Waste'
by dazc on Sunday December 10, 2017 @06:34AM
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Not that I know of no. I have heard about the scheme in Northern Europe and it makes a lot of sense.
I think the introduction of plastic bottles and paper cartons was the initial reason for dropping it? Back then recycling was purely a direct cost/benefit thing rather than for environmental reasons.