I've seen great examples of supermarkets taking back empty drink bottles (plastic) after use. You pay 20P on top of the price of your bottle of choice and the 20P is refunded when you return the bottles to the same shop. I'd LOVE to see that in the UK.
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If implemented, this would be one of those funny cases of going backwards to go forwards - in the past it was completely standard for a deposit to be paid on glass bottles, to be refunded on return or else carried over on the next purchase.
In mainland Europe, I believe such schemes are more widespread already, I don't know why they aren't in the UK.
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But then, in the past we had the right idea about a lot of things. It's this whole "disposable society" that's created so many problems. People were more likely to grow their own veg and have a compost heap 50 years ago... and they'd think nothing of taking a bag with them to do the shopping.
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