Vote: +0

"In Sweden, you can recycle aluminium cans and glass bottles in most supermarkets and you get paid a nominal fee for it. My friends and I, as kids, used to scour our local area so we could top up our weekly allowance. Do you think such a scheme should be implemented where you are?"

By: My Green Cleaner :: 3 years ago

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"i'm familiar with this recycling scheme you mention as i think it's same in Finland. to be more specific, the value of the can or bottle is added to the price of the product when you buy it, but you get it back if you return the can/bottle. if you decide to bin the can/bottle, it's like throwing away 10-50 cents, plus damaging the environment, and yes it is usually convenient way for kids to get some extra money. i think the system works very well and i would love to see it implemented where i live now. another point about this returning scheme is that bottles have to be returned intact, not broken, and most of the glass bottles and big plastic bottles are reused, instead of being crunched and processed into new containers.. surprisingly though someone mentioned to me Finland is on the limits of not meeting EU minimum recycling requirements as reusing is not considered recycling!"

By: otustata :: 3 years ago

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"having this scheme existing, is there any reason it not being implemented more widely? are there negative sides to it, or just too high costs to get it started? obviously might be difficult to access rural areas and have these recycling automates available for anyone, that could be one problem..."

By: otustata :: 3 years ago

Vote: +3

"In America, some of the states have you pay for a deposit when purchasing beer, wine or soda. Then when you have consumed the contents you can take the bottle or can back and receive a nickel for it. Many people do this and some even walk along the roads picking up the cans and bottles people have thrown out of their vehicles while driving down the road. It has helped our state withthe littering, some what.
For bigger pieces of iron, tin, copper, you can take these to a junk yard were they are crushed down and load on train cars and hauled away to be melted down and recycled. You are also paid on this.
Rubber tires are a problem, as we have recycling places but you must pay them to take your old tires. This gets very expensive and so you see tires all over the place or people burn them. It would probably be better to pay people for the tires so they did not burn them to get rid of them. The rubber could be used for something else that way.
Recycling bins are all over in towns at various points. You can return newspaper, cardboard, tin cans, and glass jars. There is no cost and nothing paid back to people, but they still bring their recycleables.
So, I don't think you have to pay people to recycle because most of us want to find a good way of disposing something that we can not longer use. However, if we are to pay to get rid of something, people are more likely to dispose of the items in a ditch, creek, bury it or leave it set around. The more friendly our recycling becomes the more receptive people are to using that system."

By: Einna :: 3 years ago

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"Surely there is no issue with being paid to recycle, reuse, repurpose, or whatever is there?

Provided there is a market for the materials someone is going to make a buck out of it, why shouldn't the consumer get something out of it. The issue for me is whether one should be paid an artificial value for a product that has a lower, negative or no market value? Most first world (or whatever its called these days) have always had some form of paid for recycling, be it milk bottles being re-used, pennies on a returned soda bottle, or scrap-metal dealers. We lost a lot of these things in recent years, but some of us are rediscovering and reembracing them."

By: Xyhfna :: 3 years ago