England should have deposits on bottles

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Can't believe they don't have this yet.

It helps keep spaces cleaner and homeless people just have to find one or two bottles and they can afford a bread product to fill them for hours. Its win win really.

Last time i was in france i remember not being charged for glass bottles at the supermarket. Have they stopped it or was it just the two supermarkets i visited?

I've looked at this - work related. There's no infrastructure and it would cost a bomb.

No manufacturer would do it without it being compulsory via government.

That's what happens when you stop something sensible.

Dixit..it was worth posting twice. Agree in germany no bottles laying on the ground.

Its not just Germany, all the Scandinavian countries have it also. Seems to be a northern Europe thing.

I don't think it would cost a bomb. The machine that take the bottels have already been made and are in mass production.

Even glass beer bottles are part of it.

You can have a few beers in the park and hand your bottle to a homeless person or just put it behind you and someone is very grateful to get it.

We used to when I was a child. Mid fifties now, but clearly remember gathering the bottles for a few coppers for sweets.

I agree, its crazy how much glass is thrown away. Maybe little fuckers teenagers would stop smashing them all over the bloody pavements if they could get money for them.

I doubt that all the glass smashing is done by teenagers.

As a child in Australia, we could collect aluminium cans for money. Children would go round after the football or cricket with huge bags, collecting all the cans. The amount paid was based on the weight of the cans collected. (I don't know if this still happens in Australia.)

Some bottles had a deposit, too, but not all.

I am sure there used to be bottles with a deposit in the UK. DH has told me that this used to happen.

I once saw a short (fictional) film about a young couple in Romania, who scammed people out of bottles by claiming they were from the water company, and needed a sample of the water. The homeowner would give them a sample of tap water in a bottle, they would then tip out the water, and take the bottles for the deposit. Not sure why I put that, but I found it interesting!

There may be some good reasons to have deposits on glass bottles, but YABU if your reason is so you can feel good about giving them to someone homeless...

Do Barr's not do this anymore with glass bottles in Scotland? It's been a while since I've seen a glass bottle of irn bru.

I was just about to mention irn bru bottles

I bought one for DH last week because he had a raging hangover. Think it was like 50p back or something

Although we did just chuck it in the recycling bin

yet? england stopped it ages ago with the demise of milk deliveries which went back to the dairy to be refilled and your deposit on your pop bottles.

A bottle deposit scheme would be costly and counterproductive
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The Guardian, 1st October 2010

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/oct/01/bottle-deposit-scheme-costly-counterproductive

Many years ago we did reuse glass bottles. Was great for extra pocket money we got 3d (old pennies) for taking pop bottles back. Can't remember when it stopped but maybe it was the early 70s.

I remember getting 10p or 15p back for glass bottles. Curries and Barrs in particular were the companies up in Scotland who did it.

I also remember getting money back on glass bottles of pop, etc.

We still use a milk man and return all our milk bottles. Milkman collects them when he delivers.

Dh goes to small brewery /pub type place and you can get take out beer in big milk bottle containers which you return.

Interesting that the research that stopped the deposit scheme was run by the bottle manufacturers- exactly the people who have a vested interest in selling bottles. I'm all for reusable containers for everything possible.

Barrs do indeed still do it. You can buy glass bottles of Irn Bru in local newsagents. Think the deposit is something like 30p. Ds collects them - mostly for the Fanny name bottles, and currently has a box of empty bottles that he refuses to take back

No manufacturer would do it without it being compulsory via government.

Happens in Germany and Sweden and no doubt many other countries I am less familiar with. It's just what you do, everybody does it, the infrastructure is there.

Just think how much less litter there would be.

We had a deposit on glass bottle years ago. It's hardly a new idea!

And we all took our own bags for shopping too. When plastic bags came in, they actually charged for them. It'd be a good idea of they brought that back. Oh wait...

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