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https://www.theguardian.com/environm...box=1557336541
[Consumers in Scotland will have to pay a 20p deposit on every bottle or drinks can they buy from shops under an ambitious new scheme unveiled by the Scottish government. The deposit return scheme, the first national scheme in the UK, will cover glass and plastic bottles, as well as aluminium and steel drinks cans, sold from any shop in Scotland.] The First to do it. Last edited by arista; 08-05-2019 at 05:38 PM. |
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POW! BLAM!
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Urgh, piss of with your stealth extra taxes.
Instead, offer incentives for taking cans and bottles to recycling plants. |
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self-oscillating
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kids will do great. It was a great earner for me as a kid returning glass bottles
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The voice of reason
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More reason for my wine boxes
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Marc
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It's a good idea. When I was in Munich two summers ago, people would leave their glass bottles (you can drink in public there) so the homeless could return them for money.
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All hail the Moyesiah
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So if you're a little shop and someone turns up with a truckload of old bottles and cans they've found they'll be obliged to refund the 20p on every one and find a means of recycling them themselves? Will they have a means of claiming that money back?
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Quand il pleut, il pleut
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...it won’t just be retailers where they can be returned...there will be RVM’s..(...Reverse Vending Machines...)...where the bottles can be deposited and the refund given...and even places like some schools../...community centres will have these for community use...
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Surely the shop owners won't have to pay the tax cause they have no guaranteed way of getting the cans back..so couldn't the shop owners just cut out the middle man and pour out the contents and get 20p on every single one..?..increasing profit.
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All hail the Moyesiah
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Better idea imo would be just to have large retailers subscribed to this scheme and have designated shops which are large enough to accommodate bulk returns quite easily |
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Remembering Kerry
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I think on balance it's a good idea.
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Does sound like a potential headache for small retailers I suppose, but not exactly major. |
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Lisa Scott-Lee Expert
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POW! BLAM!
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That's how it should be, rather than bumping up prices and mucking small retailers around.
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I can see still game coming back for a xmas special on this subject alone
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