Comment on Put a £5 deposit on vapes to stop fires, say waste companies
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Would support the idea of this for quite a few things tbh, encourage recycling things properly. Just see how much plastic bags were reduced with a small fee being added to their price. It doesn’t have to be much money if it’s not very difficult.
danielquinn@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
100%. Deposit systems create a “scavenger class” of people. Imagine a deposit on:
…and then introduce legislation requiring reusable (and deposit-managed) fast food containers and overnight you’ve solved a massive part of municipal waste costs.
makingrain@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
In the UK we should have deposits for everything. Mattresses, TVs, all the shit that people could pay a nominal fee to have disposed of, but are either too thick or are happy to blight their streets with fly-tipped goods.