My parents collect cans for a living

Re:My parents collect cans for a living by subpixel on Monday December 20, 2021 @06:57AM (#29623854)

Isn’t there a decline in deposit bottle usage in Germany?

When I was a kid beer was delivered to your house by the crate and empties picked up. I was led to believe this has become less common, which would be regrettable bc it was elegantly efficient.

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Re:My parents collect cans for a living by ratww on Monday December 20, 2021 @08:35AM (#29624744)

Every other month I see old products going from "disposable" to "with deposit". So I don't think so. The latest for me were the tiny juice bottles from Rewe. 25c Pfand.

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Re:My parents collect cans for a living by subpixel on Monday December 20, 2021 @09:03AM (#29625025)

Edit: it's reusable/refillable bottles that I am remembering and referring to, and I'm happy to say the system in Germany seems to be strong, per Google.

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Re:My parents collect cans for a living by laulis on Monday December 20, 2021 @07:39AM (#29624203)

There's Flaschenpost[1] in some cities, and afaik it's pretty popular. Me and my partner use it pretty regularly.

[1] https://www.flaschenpost.de/

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Re:My parents collect cans for a living by dark-star on Monday December 20, 2021 @09:35AM (#29625321)

wow, what a badly designed site. I can't even look at it because it keeps pestering me with some popup that asks for my ZIP code (which I don't want to provide, as I just want to know what that page is all about)

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Re:My parents collect cans for a living by Semaphor on Monday December 20, 2021 @07:48AM (#29624291)

Deliveries, I don't know. But every sparkling water, beer bottle has deposit as have all (?) cans. So a decline would be kinda impossible unless people stop buying those.

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