A Step In The Right Direction?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43563164
It seems we will be adopting the Norwegian approach.

[kvalidir]

Yes! Totally in favour of this, we have the same thing in Germany works really well :)

[ummmm]

A great idea. I bet it'll get kids out litter picking.

[naomi24]

Yes.

[vulcan42]

Certainly a step in the right direction but they're being somewhat disingenuous by calling it a reward scheme.

[Old_Geezer]

Doubt it'd get many kids out picking up after the unsociable litterers. Hourly rate would be awful, and they are likely to get sufficient pocket money anyway.

This is worth a try, but times have moved on. Families would need to make it a habit to return bottles.

[mushroom25]

not just kids litter picking. even when deposits are charged it's amazing the amount of discarded cans that drinkers can't be bothered with. on a recent ski trip to finland (where the same scheme operates) a can-pick every day provided a healthy subsidy for our own drinks kitty.

[Jackdaw33]

Years ago we used to pinch bottles out of the crates behind the Workmen's club and take them to the corner shop for the deposit refund until they got wise to us.

[ToraToraTora]

Ummmm, yes I can remember searching for bottles as a kid. A lot of modern kids may turn their noses up at the meagre deposits but I reckon a lot will still be out there scouring the streets. Personally I can't see myself going and getting the deposits so I'll save them for the scouts etc.

[roopower]

Great idea. Norway has been recycling bottles for years.

[douglas9401]

It's a good and obvious thing to do, sadly only being looked at by our leaders on the back of a telly programme.

Now if we can get the various parts of the UK to use one system instead of the shambolic mess that kerbside recycling is there's a chance it'll be worthwhile, eventually.

[ummmm]

Where I live they have an exercise scheme where they go jogging and picking up litter (shouldn't have to do that)

My kids when they were younger would have picked up bottles for the return money.

[roopower]

Some children would certainly think it lucrative. I knew a lad who spent his weekends on his hands and knees in the scrub round golf courses. He made a tidy some selling the balls back to the players.

[emmie]

it does seem like a good idea, provided the people take the bottles back to the shop.

[Haggisdj]

I thik that this is a great idea but it may have reprecussions for some families. Imagine that there is a large family that does their monthly shopping, including all their cans and bottles, in a supermarket. The next month they dutifully return all their bottles and cans; receive their deposits and then buy their monthly shopping again, paying all the deposits.

They will never actually get their deposits back until they stop buying the cans and bottles for their family?

[Old_Geezer]

Whilst strictly true, if you don't take them back the deposits you don't receive just accumulates. At least receiving then respending prevents that. So the same incentive to return your plastic, remains.

[youngmafbog]

Yes, one has to ask where that deposit money will go as it does seem to be a large interest free loan for some.

Still, it is a step in the right direction we just need to wait and see exactly what is rolled out. I will also be interested to see how they deal with online shopping.

[Mamyalynne]

A good scheme if implemented well, I too would like to know about the online shopping approach in all this.

[ummmm]

I do wonder how it'll work. Where will they put them? If you have a largest family and no transport how do you get to them?

[naomi24]

I like TTT's idea of giving returns to scouts., etc. What a good way for them to raise extra funds.

[naomi24]

ummmm, our Council doesn't collect glass so we take it to recycling centres. I suppose instead of putting our bottles straight in the big bins, we'll take them into the shop, claim our reward, and the shop will put them in the bins.