Comment on Nitrous oxide: Laughing gas to be illegal by end of year
TWeaK@lemm.ee 9 months agoNot everyone returns and collects the deposit back, these deposits end up funding the operations.
If the Finnish scheme is anything like the German scheme, that’s what I was thinking of. Although it doesn’t need to be quite so widespread with machines inside every supermarket.
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
They’ll have to wait with just taking the deposit money since for quite a long time you wouldn’t know if they’re returning it or not. And if it’s anything like other systems, you can return it to different place than the one you paid for, which requires moving money around and whatnot. And there’s the issue of getting them from the stores to be recycled and overall upkeep and governance of the system and so on.
The systems are a lot more complex than one might think at first.
TWeaK@lemm.ee 9 months ago
I didn’t say it was simple, but it’s straightforward and very far from unfeasible.
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
It sure is a thing that can be done, it’s just a lot of effort and possibly cost for what it might achieve
TWeaK@lemm.ee 9 months ago
But there are tons of costs with criminalisation, too. The cost of police time, the cost of court time, the cost of prison, the loss of production from otherwise good citizens being made into criminals. Which is the better use of public resources? Which would be more effective at actually preventing cannisters from being left around everywhere?