Comment on ‘Huge disappointment’ as UK delays bottle deposit plan and excludes glass

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mbirth@lemmy.mbirth.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

It’s not like anyone gets hurt by a homeless person that looks down a bin. Does it matter if someone empties a bottle on the pavement? It’s a few centilitres at max and it’s better than throwing the bottles in the bin.

It’s sad that this is necessary and assumed “normal”. And I don’t know about you, but I don’t like to step into some sticky puddle of something the second I take my eyes off the pavement.

Aren’t your machines printing out coupons with unique barcodes? If not, that’s incredibly stupid.

They do! But in several shops the return machines were added without being connected to their payment system. Probably because of incompatibility. And people figured out how the barcodes are encoded.

The point of the system is primarily to stop people from throwing the bottles and cans in the trash. So that’s where all the bottles are in London.

The trash can be sorted. So why not make it a problem of the rubbish companies to properly sort the plastics and getting them recycled?

I’m living in the UK for a year now and I totally love the fact that I can just buy a bottle to drink somewhere and once finished get rid of it without wasting 25p or carrying that empty bottle around all day. Or that I can squish bottles at home before they go into the recycling bin outside.

As somebody that only shops for groceries every few weeks, I absolutely hated the several bags of empty plastic bottles we had to find room for, drive to the supermarket and then spend 20 minutes queuing for and feeding them one by one into the machine.

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