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Re:Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling indus... by mrec on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @11:41PM (#24715496)
Beer too IIRC - you can buy it by the crate and return the empties to get a meaningful deposit back.
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Re:Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling indus... by Xylakant on Thursday October 08, 2020 @03:08AM (#24716654)
Though most of the deposit for returning a beer crate is on the crate. The deposit for a regular beer bottle is 8cents - it used to be 15Pfennig, cut in half when the EUR was introduced. The problem is that you cannot easily raise the deposit value of a bottle and inflation has taken most of the value away.
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Re:Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling indus... by mrec on Thursday October 08, 2020 @11:57AM (#24720343)
Ah, I was there pre-Euro.
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