Musings from the Merse
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
More Free (re) cycling Norn Iron style
A Yahoo chat room included this suggestion from a Norn Iron eco warrior:
How about this for a novel recycling idea?
Make bottles from re-usable glass instead of plastic. Make a proportion of the purchase price a deposit for the glass bottle, say 20 pence. When you return the bottle to the retailer, you get 20 pence cash back, or 20 pence of the next bottle. Or you could save 5 bottles and let your child return them, and let them keep the £1.
Could this idea catch on?
and he adds
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I know it is not a new idea - that is my British sarcasm. I used to return my mother's bottles for 5p per bottle and spend the money!
The response voted as the most appropriate (2 votes) was as follows
it is good from the side of recycling and makes an easily closed loop system.
However the increased transporting weight of the glass over plastic probably outweighs the advantages of recycling in this case. There needs to be greater industrial need for reuse of plastic and then we will have a better system.
Besides wasn't this the old system used by early lemonade companies and old British* colonies? :-P
A local bloggee has commented:
Introduce this in Scotland and you will have a run on the bottle banks-Prudent Borderers scrambling to get their bottle back
* British Colony? Norn Iron?
(the image is inside a bottle bank-Norn Iron Rock-no orange bottles in view so this branch is presumably exclusively used by the nationalist community)
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