Shoppers 'to be charged 20p on plastic bottles & Metal Cans under return scheme

[chaparral]

Does anyone know if this means if you buy a pack of 4+ bottles or 6+ metal cans of drink there be a 20p extra charge for each can/bottle in the pack ?

Shoppers 'to be charged 20p on plastic bottles under return scheme' (msn.com)

Shoppers could soon be charged 20 pence extra for drinks in plastic bottles or metal cans under a new deposit return scheme designed to boost recycling and reduce littering.

That going be £4.80 extra for a 24 pack of coke cola


And what about all the other stuff you need that comes in plastic bottles..

 

[Delvis]

Good idea, been done in parts of Europe for eons, most of the time you have a deposit bank.

The problem here is we recycle everything, where I love I have a bin that takes literally all recycling, I don't want to have to take cans/bottles to a separate place.

 

[touch]

That going be £4.80 extra for a 24 pack of coke cola

Return the cans and get your £4.80 back....that's the point.

 

[M1k3H]

Sounds good.

 

[StriderX]

Endless moaning from chavs and karens to commence.

 

[David91]

As long as councils are prepared for this, and offer an easy means to recycle the bottles/cans that is accessible (especially currently given the COVID-19 restrictions) I'm all for it.

Annoyingly my council (Newham) is a little backwards when it comes to recycling - and glass goes in the non-recyclables bin for reasons.

 

[Reality|Bites]

Like Barrs used to do with their glass bottles of juice huh, Dunns give you 40p back on a bottle costing £1.40

 

[Reality|Bites]

remember the days of being a little boy going to the shop with your glass cheques.

 

[chaparral]

Like Barrs used to do with their glass bottles of juice huh, Dunns give you 40p back on a bottle costing £1.40

back in the 70's or 80's we used to get money back for returning glass coke bottles if i remember right

Also didn't you uk guys use to get milk in glass bottles back in the 70's & 80's ?

 

[Reality|Bites]

Yeah we did, I was only born in the summer of 79

 

[EGuitarStar]

Finally! We should have introduced this years ago.

Had to do this as a tourist in Germany. Easy and no fuss.

 

[Angilion]

This reminds me of when I was a boy. Many bottles had a deposit on them and it was possible for a child to top up their pocket money by roaming around town collecting littered bottles and returning them for the deposit.

However...

As long as councils are prepared for this, and offer an easy means to recycle the bottles/cans that is accessible (especially currently given the COVID-19 restrictions) I'm all for it. [..]

That almost certainly won't happen, so the system will just be a costly annoyance.

Another big change is that recycling is a bigger thing nowadays and more organised. For example, I recycle all my bottles and cans by putting them in a box that's collected by the council. So this scheme would simply be extra tax on me and the many other people who do the same thing. Essentially, it's penalising only the people who already recycle. Also, of course, it disproportionately penalises poor people.

 

[Deleted User 298457]

Return the cans and get your £4.80 back....that's the point.

And stop drinking brown sugar water.

 

[chaparral]

Am off now to see i can find a few thousand empty cans & bottles so i can return them when this comes in

 

[Junglist]

I'm all for this, personally. However we can reduce waste the better and sometimes to force peoples hands you have to hit them where it hurts - their wallets

 

[Reality|Bites]

I await the mass protest over this one

 

[Derek W]

where I love I have a bin that takes literally all recycling

 

[Nasher]

Am off now to see i can find a few thousand empty cans & bottles so i can return them when this comes in

That is exactly what happened in the US when they started doing this lol

People took the **** with cars full of cans.

 

[Mr Badger]

Am off now to see i can find a few thousand empty cans & bottles so i can return them when this comes in

It says 2023 implementation. So you've got two years to collect tons of cans and bottles to bankrupt your local corner shop with on the day the scheme launches.

 

[a1ex2001]

As a scheme it directly collides with doorstep recycling and is going to smash headlong into the online grocery shop revolution. Picture this for a stupid situation currently 99% of my shopping is done online and delivered to my house then when empty I put the plastic and cans out for doorstep recycling collection. Now I’m going to have to separate the stuff with a deposit on it and make a special journey in my car to get my money back. This scheme is 20 years too late!