My parents collect cans for a living

Re:My parents collect cans for a living by kkjjkgjjgg on Monday December 20, 2021 @03:37AM (#29622587)

So how much do you want to pay for bottle collecting? When you say "the US has the resources to reward hard workers", in this case you mean everybody who buys a bottle should pay more. Or how would you envision it to play out?

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Re:My parents collect cans for a living by smt88 on Monday December 20, 2021 @11:51AM (#29626957)

We could easily turn bottle-collecting into a job with guaranteed hours and pay.

Bottle-collecting is a poor example for the broader issue I was discussing. Those programs are intended for the (mostly homeless) poor to pick up trash they see instead of leaving it behind. It does what it's supposed to do.

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Re:My parents collect cans for a living by zeckalpha on Monday December 20, 2021 @07:08AM (#29623951)

Many places use a deposit system, where if you return the packaging for recycling, you get your money back. This cuts down on litter, at no cost to those who recycle.

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Re:My parents collect cans for a living by kkjjkgjjgg on Monday December 20, 2021 @10:32AM (#29626006)

But presumably, the higher the price for returning bottles, the less likely people will be to just dump them on the street, for the collectors to collect?

Or it will become attractive for more collectors. In any case, it may not be so simple to raise their "wage" for collecting bottles.

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Re:My parents collect cans for a living by zeckalpha on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @01:14AM (#29634540)

Many people will dump on the street (or in cans the collectors tend to) even if the deposit tripled.

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