I have seperate bags for all mine. One for cans and another for cardboard etc. If i have to take it back to the shop it'll be such a ball ache i just wont bother.
Shoppers 'to be charged 20p on plastic bottles & Metal Cans under return scheme
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I have seperate bags for all mine. One for cans and another for cardboard etc. If i have to take it back to the shop it'll be such a ball ache i just wont bother.
Kinda just said the same. Its an awful idea.
Can people order off amazon and then claim the bottle/can return money back from there local shop i wonder
In the UK, if bottled water doesn't state "spring water", it's filtered tap water. Or unfiltered tap water. There's no requirement for a company selling tap water in a bottle to do anything to the tap water and not much reason for them to do so.
I do sometimes buy bottled water, if I am out and want something to drink. I'd rather drink bottled water than bottled water with sweeteners and flavourings added to it.
If you want a bit of a laugh about filtered tap water, there's always the Dasani fiasco:
It didn't set Coke back much, really. Not even when they cheerfully advertised that their bottled tap water was full of *****, apparently unaware that "*****" has two very different meanings. Not even when it was found to contain a dangerous chemical (added by the process Coke was using, not in the tap water they were using) in amounts that are illegal in the UK. They just used a different brandname for their bottled tap water in the UK.
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It won't, people will pay just like they're happy to pay 90% tax on fossil fuels to power their cars instead of using public transport or their legs
Charging money isn't going to solve the problem of too much plastic unless the charge is prohibitively expensive that people literally can't afford to buy plastic, or we could use alternatives to plastic but that wouldn't generate money from nothing like a glorified tax does
That's the problem in a nutshell, I think.
Assuming that the intent of the scheme is to increase recycling, anyway. The scheme will work much better as a stealth tax with environmentalism as an excuse, so that might be the intent of the scheme.
They know it won't stop people but it will cut down the amount many people would have bought..Just like the plastic bag charge people use less bags when they got to pay for them.
Just like the high fuel tax doesn't stop people driving there cars but it does cut down the miles they do..
specially with online shopping available now,Many people will now think why waste £5 or £10 or £20 etc of petrol when they can get something delivered for free
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Public transport is more expensive than running a car in most of the country and it's largely useless and unreliable (outside of London). So people don't have any other choice there
I often see buses with no one on them during the rural parts of my commute. Especially since covid.
They arent taking the **** at all. If you make a stupid scheme like this then expect people to use it for their own gains.
Same here
We put all non glass bottles etc into the council provided bin, and glass bottles get put in one of the old Safeways green boxes (how's that for recycling, we've been using them for 25 years!) and taken to the bottle bank every time a box is full.
Plastic bags however the only place in town that does recycling for them is the big tesco store (not even the tidy tip does them), and I've got a huge number waiting to be disposed of now because I've not been able to go there for over a year.
It's going to end up as a tax on those who already recycle but don't have the time/ability to take them to a specific place to get the credit back.
Hire a giant magnet on a lorry and drive around town early on recyling day sucking cans out of people's recycling bins!
(This idea brought to you by Wile E. Coyote and the Acme Corporation)
Youre in denial if you think your waste doesnt end up in landfill anyway. I have contacts in the waste industry both private and public sector, the country would be shocked if they knew just how little is actually recycled.
I've only just moved to an area where my glass bottles can go in the blue bin with the rest of the recycling - no more beer bottle shame from me on a Saturday morning at the local super market bottle bank. Thankfully I don't buy many plastic bottles or cans anyway..
In my early teens, 15/16, you could buy a full soda syphon bottle in a pub off licence, and take it home after leaving a 5 shillings, (25p), deposit.
My friend Joey would steal one from the pub’s bar counter, pour the soda water down a drain, and collect 5 shillings from the off licence.
The point isn't to fix any problem. It's to give people a chance to think that Something Is Being Done and that they personally are Doing Something. Standard politics.
Yeah bugger that, think we had a separate glass bin for one year, now its all in the blue lid bin. Bliss.
Not my problem really, I'm doing what the council asks, what happens after that is on the council.
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only certain types of plastic are viable for recycling anyway, I doubt plastic bottles actually are.
at infant school I remember milk in glass bottles (that was delivered/left outside early in the morning)...sometimes the birds used to peck through the foil tops and ruin it for everyone
Been doing it for a few years. Not a big deal.
10p on a can 20p on a plastic bottle.
Once a month take a bag to the supermarket and feed them into the machine, collect the barcoded ticket and carry on.
Only thing that sucks is beggars asking for your bottles....
10p on a can 20p on a plastic bottle.
Once a month take a bag to the supermarket and feed them into the machine, collect the barcoded ticket and carry on.
Only thing that sucks is beggars asking for your bottles....