Tetchytyke
Veteran Member
What's going to happen to the less well off pensioners who would have difficulty taking items to recycling banks?
When I was a lad my fizzy pop came in glass bottles, not plastic, and the likes of Barr gave you a refund if you took the glass bottle back. I used to be dead pleased when I found empty bottles of Irn Bru, I was quids in. Bet the newsagent hated me though.
In Germany, the deposit machines are in the entrance halls of supermarkets. You take your empties back and restock them with new. If the elderly can get the bottles in, they get the bottles out.