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

There should be more of this type of thing.

Takeaways should have a standard container that can be hygienically re-used and you get a discount for returning them.
 
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a1ex2001 said:
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!
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This basically. I'm all for recycling, I recycle everything I can in the council-provided recycling bins. If I now have to start returning recycling to the shops I bought it from to get the money back after buying my shopping online it's clearly flawed.
 
Junglist said:
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
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While I'm all for recycling I'm still not sold on having to jump in the car and drive to a recycling centre causing pollution rather than just tossing them in my blue recycling bin.
 
Joxeon said:
While I'm all for recycling I'm still not sold on having to jump in the car and drive to a recycling centre causing pollution rather than just tossing them in my blue recycling bin.
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Same.

It's just going to push me more towards soda stream or tap water.

I'm not going to waste hours of my life every month having to return cans or bottles
 
It's a shame there aren't clean options of travel available to us! If only a two wheeled device existed where you could sit on it and move your legs in a circular direction to get along faster. Or if only these legs of ours could transport us to places by putting one in front of the other.

If only eh :p;)
 
Junglist said:
It's a shame there aren't clean options of travel available to us! If only a two wheeled device existed where you could sit on it and move your legs in a circular direction to get along faster.
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I seen them things before there normally on a holder strapped to the back or roof of a car. Guess it the thought that counts :p
 
Angilion said:
Why are you opposed to recycling being done by local councils along with rubbish collection?
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The amount of litter around, anything that helps this is good. The people who drop litter generally seem to be the scum of society. And money talks.

A simple charge on plastic bags has made so much difference

If there was incentive to pick up litter like crisp packets and more, I bet the amount of litter dropped would plummet
 
413x said:
The amount of litter around, anything that helps this is good. The people who drop litter generally seem to be the scum of society. And money talks.

A simple charge on plastic bags has made so much difference

If there was incentive to pick up litter like crisp packets and more, I bet the amount of litter dropped would plummet
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The plastic bag charge is a good example - people pay extra for the more robust bags. Which are usually even less biodegradable than the old carrier bags were. The people who carry and reuse shopping bags aren't generally the same people who litter everywhere. They are generally the same people who will be most penalised by this idea - the people who put their stuff out for recycling anyway and will now just be paying extra for everything.

But has the charge on plastic bags made any difference. It looks that way if you just count the number of carrier bags sold, but that's not the real picture. 5p for a flimsy carrier bag that will rip open if you put more than a pea in it or 20p for a much more robust bag? It'll be the latter most of the time. Which does wonders for reducing the number of the former sold but says nothing about the number of bags sold.

Adding an incentive to pick up litter might reduce the amount of litter on the streets, but I doubt if it would reduce the amount of litter dropped. The people picking up the litter wouldn't be the people dropping it. The people dropping it don't care. They won't even put it in a bin that's a metre away.
 
I shop in Aldi and the cheaper bag option is a waste of time as the handle snaps off half way out the door so I've resigned myself to just buy a bag for life if i'm in without a previously bought one (man that was a boring post)
 
Those Tennent's cans are collectable, you can buy/sell those, the local lass Norma Bell (where I am and yes I know her but I'm younger) in not on those but found her online.

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Efour said:
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....
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I never minded the beggars, if you were in a hurry you just gave them a sack of cans. Where we worked once a week a homeless guy wpuld pick up our recycling so we didn't have to nake a trip in a car.

One of the benefits is that when people do toss a can in park etc. it is swiftly picked up by a homeless person
 
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