The Recycling Myth

Re:The Recycling Myth by wisty on Thursday November 12, 2009 @04:50AM (#937438)

There's an easy solution. Put a deposit (tax) on bottles, that gets refunded when the bottle gets recycled.

If it's worth a 10 cent "sin tax" for me to chuck a Cola bottle away, the that's my choice. If somebody can sort my garbage (because they really need the money, or they have a high-tech robot that can sort trash really well, or whatever else), then they win as well.

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Re:The Recycling Myth by marknutter on Thursday November 12, 2009 @08:56AM (#937740)

Turning an entire nation of people into homeless bottle collectors. Genius. Maybe everyone could get a government issued grocery cart too.

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Re:The Recycling Myth by jkmcf on Thursday November 12, 2009 @09:38AM (#937810)

It's done in the US as well, though mostly in the East, I think.

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Re:The Recycling Myth by parboman on Thursday November 12, 2009 @05:26AM (#937478)

this is already done in Sweden.

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Re:The Recycling Myth by yagiz on Thursday November 12, 2009 @09:22AM (#937787)

And in Turkey, for some bottles.

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Re:The Recycling Myth by dreur on Thursday November 12, 2009 @09:36AM (#937809)

And in Canada

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