[News] Return deposit on bottles.

[Justice]

They are charging the extra 15p on the cost of the bottle/can beforehand and have to have a receipt to get a return apparently load of bolocks.

Just another tax for the poor/elderly/disabled

 

[swindonseagull]

They are charging the extra 15p on the cost of the bottle/can beforehand and have to have a receipt to get a return apparently load of bolocks.

Just another tax for the poor/elderly/disabled

No receipt required in Europe. Just pop the bottle or can in a machine , it's scanned and out comes your deposit.
You don't have to take them to the same place they are purchased...

 

[RandyWanger]

No receipt required in Europe. Just pop the bottle or can in a machine , it's scanned and out comes your deposit.
You don't have to take them to the same place they are purchased...

It's a very easy system. Most super markets will have the recycling machines, put your bottles in and it'll give you a receipt, do you shop and at the end scan it in and get money off. Although we think we're better off alone, we could learn a lot from that lot over le channel

 

[Hastings gull]

So no doubt like many others I put bottles out for recycling either as glass or plastic. But going forward I will have to stop this and take everything with me (I assume) to the supermarket and queue to put these items which were already being recycled into a machine to get a voucher where upon I will then need to join another queue to receive cash all before I start my weekly shop.
And will this be on everything such as jam jars or just drink bottles of glass and plastic.
I'm now looking forward to the even earlier Amex leavers as they seek to get their deposit back on their kids coke bottle before catching the train or bus.

try being less negative. Millions do it in Germany, as I have experienced. there are no queues, though there might be one person on occasion in front of you and you can offset the shopping bill at the till with the value of the voucher. Couldn't be easier.

 

[Hastings gull]

They are charging the extra 15p on the cost of the bottle/can beforehand and have to have a receipt to get a return apparently load of bolocks.

Just another tax for the poor/elderly/disabled

It might be an idea to check properly before you come up with this nonsense.

 

[Hastings gull]

I am a OCD recycler at home - but seven seasons at the Amex still can't work out those recycle bins on the concourses

Yes, I too take it seriously, but for the life of me don't know in which bin to put the empty plastic beer container.

 

[Arrid]

Why can't the manufacturers come up with biodegradable bottles/containers?

 

[ManOfSussex]

I remember the system in The Czech Republic for this over 10 years back at the supermarket - they were automated machines for returning glass bottles which then produced a voucher for the supermarket till, but the bottle sizes were a standard size and colour.

 

[RandyWanger]

Why can't the manufacturers come up with biodegradable bottles/containers?

I'm sure they can. I have Biodegradable and BPA free water bottles that I take to work with me and refill through the day.

 

[Justice]

It might be an idea to check properly before you come up with this nonsense.

The fella was on LBC this morning mate I didn't just make it up. Idiot

 

[Joe Gatting's Dad]

Seems to me to be a pointless exercise - are people really going to separate out the bottles and take them to a special recycling point?

I see nothing wrong in the council collecting my plastic waste from my front door every Tuesday, paid for from my Council Tax.

 

[Bozza]

I am a OCD recycler at home - but seven seasons at the Amex still can't work out those recycle bins on the concourses

Every. Bloody. Game.

Just which side is my empty plastic pint pot supposed to go into. I still have no idea.

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

I cannot be the only one on NSC that buys beer by the crate from Harveys in Lewes?

I get a "refund" on returning their crate and each empty bottle [of theirs] in said crate.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Every. Bloody. Game.

Just which side is my empty plastic pint pot supposed to go into. I still have no idea.

Seems like we all have exactly the same problem. How many pints do they sell per game, 50,000 maybe? Would help if they had big graphics of the most common packaging (beer glasses, burger wrappers etc) on the top of the bins, rather than in tiny wee small print halfway down the bin like they currently do.

 

[Arthur]

Every. Bloody. Game.

Just which side is my empty plastic pint pot supposed to go into. I still have no idea.

Just drink in multiples of 2 and alternate. Every game you can return home safe in the knowledge you've done your bit for the eco warrior inside of you. The more you drink the more you save the planet!

 

[portslade seagull]

Remember going to the offie sneaking around the back lifting a few empties and then claiming the return value in exchange for either crisps or sweets. This is a good move hopefully it comes off

 

[Hastings gull]

The fella was on LBC this morning mate I didn't just make it up. Idiot

First of all, you did not say that, and secondly, you obviously and very naively believe hook, line and sinker, what someone on the radio says - and then you call me an idiot! Now, who is the real idiot?

 

[happypig]

I know someone* who used to "collect" Corona bottles from the back garden of the chippy in Coombe Road then take them into the shop and get the deposit back. Some of those bottles got recycled several times.


*not me, honest

 

[madinthehead]

They are charging the extra 15p on the cost of the bottle/can beforehand and have to have a receipt to get a return apparently load of bolocks.

Just another tax for the poor/elderly/disabled

Dunno.. They do it in Germany and the poor/ entrepreneurs pick the bottles off the streets and get the money back for them.. At big sporting events/ festivals, people turn up with big plastic sacks and fill them and return them.
No receipts required and if anything some of the poor benefit from it.
A lot of the plastic bottles are 25 cents, so taking a load to the local drinks store/supermarket is worth it.
As stated earlier they have a very high recycle rate due to this..

 

[Justice]

First of all, you did not say that, and secondly, you obviously and very naively believe hook, line and sinker, what someone on the radio says - and then you call me an idiot! Now, who is the real idiot?

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