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BBC News - Call for deposit charge on drinks bottles to cut litter

The Campaign for Rural England have suggested that bottle deposits be reintroduced, will it work. They suggest 15p on half litre and 30p on 1 litre bottles, also on plastic and cans too. Remember the old days when you bought a bottle of pop and the took the empty back for about 5d and beer bottles from the pub you got 2d, but would it work today

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i remember taking empty bottles of irn bru back to the shop for something like 5p when i was ickler

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Bottles it probably would work to a large degree, cans n plastic dont see it working, where the hell would shopkeepers store all that stuff? there was money to be made taking bottles back, can remember reprobates climbing oer the co-op yard on "Ribblesdale" n nicking crates of empty's, only to return them the following day to the said co-op fer ciggy money.:rofl38::rofl38::rofl38::rofl38:

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Don,t see why not they do it over here in Germany & Holland & it isn't a major issue. Perhaps maybe the pricing is a tad to much on the UK model (Germany = 0.08 ct per glass bottle & 0.25 ct per plastic bottle irrespective of size) you save them all up, take em' back, get a chit & that goes towards paying for your next case of Beer,Water,Pop.

The shops even have machines for return-disposable bottles which shred them as you shove them in (Kids love it) all the bottles put in are tallied up & again the chit which can also be used in the shop for your messages & not just fresh drinks. Makes sense in my book & I certainly ain't no Eco freak, just someone who appreciates common sense.

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Thing wi that dave is were would the dosh come from, to pay fer these shredders? it aint foreign aid ya know.:confused: plus were would they go in the small shop?

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I don't think it would work here, we'd all get fined by the council for not filling our blue boxes and bags on recycle day.

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I believe the shops buy them (Aldi/Lidl & other chains) from a producer, as to the Kiosks/Corner shops, here they charge 0.25ct per can, so if the buyer returns back to the shop they get their deposit back, but as most of it is passing trade the Kiosk/Corner shops make more often than not.

Any that are returned he saves up & takes to one of the bigger shops & uses their machines & he's well maybe not Quids in but he's certainly better off. :D

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Yur past catching up wi ya again cashy:D:D

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And kids aren't as enterprising as we were heth:D

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Exactly John!!! They would prob want more money for returning them anyway!!!:D

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I'm all in favour of the deposit on bottles being reintroduced. When I was a few years younger we used to climb over the back yard wall of the off-licence, nick a crate of empty bottles, take them back to various selling out shops in the area and get the deposit back. Some of these bottles must have had their deposits refunded more than a few times.:D:D
Never mind remember the reprobates, I bet cashman used to make money this way.:D

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Mate of cashy's hey:D:D

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The proposed scheme involves the consumer taking all the empties to an Authorised Site in order to get a refund.I can see a lot of problems in this little thought out idea.
Although on the "plus" side it will employ a further few hundred thousand civil servants to implicate this cost saving exercise.

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I was a reprobate!:D

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I recall the old syle bottles were thicker glass than the ones we get now.
They were made to be recycled - the fragile thin ones aren't.
Using stronger thicker glass will cause production problems for the drinks manufacturers and will increase the cost of the products (even before the surcharge is added)

I don't like the plastic bottles, and the thought that they have been used before makes me shudder at the hygiene implications - ie. you can't scald a plastic bottle clean.

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They do not reuse the plastic bottles they recycle the plastic they are made from.

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They are doing that already, so how does this 'new initiative' mean anything different (other than adding to the price)

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opportunists cashy, not reprobates.:tongueout

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The smart money was on Soda Siphons,(loosers):tongueout:D:D

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Naughty tits.

Skimmed means no more deposits.

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:confused:

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:rolleyes:

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We know:D

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Wish I'd half a dozen now Beni, worth a few quid today:)

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Traded mine in a few years ago for a bottle bank collecting wagon.As they say mighty oaks and all that.:tongueout

Just waiting for the new Authorised site to cash in big style.Hope It's cash.

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they do it with barr bottles up here and it will work because theres going to be a lot of poverty after the october budget by the tories..

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Strife created over the last 13 years by incompetence by Brown ad Blair:p

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maybe who knows but if there wasnt a WORLD recession we would have paid it back in time and there would be less poverty people forget what it was like before labour.expensive child care,no n.w.wage[good job we have on now or people would have been working for a pound an hour] crumbling schools and hospitals more crime etc.:p

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Have you ever considered copying and pasting that post to a note book file?

It would save you quite a large amount of time typing it out, you use it with boring repetition during a typical day.
:rolleyes:

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If the other clowns would listen I wouldn't have to bother Less;)

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Its alright crowing about Labour have done this and Labour have done that, its bloody well paying for it, its the easiest thing in the world to spend money, I have always wanted a Mercedes Sports car but I can afford one. For the last 13 years Labour have run this country like lots of people run their lives, on the never, never, the only difference being if you cock up you lose your home, all they've done is been kick out of office and a usual left the Tories to clean up their S tip