This is cool!
In the #Netherlands we have this orange things on trash bins so people can put in empty cans that people can return for a small deposit
I just talked a while with an elderly man who was biking around and collecting these, he told me he earned a few hundred euros a month extra this way since he’s with pension and has plenty of time and wants to keep things clean
Love those creative solution!
Greenbeard
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in reply to stux⚡️ • • •@10meisterbaelle In Germany there is the slogan "Pfand gehört daneben" roughly "deposit goes next to the bin"
And such devices in some places as well.
But it's sad that the poor have to rely on the lazyness (to bring their deposit back themself) of the middle class.
Anopka
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in reply to stux⚡️ • • •Then manufacturers gave up on glass bottles.
Sundew
in reply to stux⚡️ • • •Do the elderly people collecting them get into turf wars?
I'm sure geriatric knife fights are sure to follow... ;)
Yora
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in reply to stux⚡️ • • •That's great!
In Germany, putting empty cans and bottles that have desposit beside trash bins is quite common. But be aware: In #Dortmund they have already charged some people for littering... 🙄
Noodlemaz
in reply to stux⚡️ • • •We don't even have pant (or whatever the English equivalent would be - the small payment you get for turning in recyclables) in Britain 😐
Andreas
in reply to stux⚡️ • • •some months ago a retired person who showed in his honesty what he had earned by this got his social assistance support reduced by the same amount.
only in German:
taz.de/Altersarmut-in-Hamburg/…
Altersarmut in Hamburg: Sozialamt zieht Flaschenpfand von Sozialhilfe ab
Kaija Kutter (taz)René Moser (resmo) レネ
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in reply to stux⚡️ • • •In NSW Australia there is a ten-cent deposit on most cans and bottles. To earn a few hundred dollars - say $300 - a month, though, you'd need to find, transport, store and return 3000 items items. It'd be a full time job.
When I was in school (lo, these many years hence), the local milk bar used to pay a deposit on drink bottles, but they made the mistake of storing them in a bin out the back. We would go and raid the bin after hours and return the bottles over and over and over again....
지지 ᚠᚱᛖᛃᚨ Daniel 黄法官 CyReVolt
in reply to stux⚡️ • • •also people being fined for putting bottles next to bins, because law and order (jerks).
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