Bottle Deposit Schemes

In Europe (I think Amsterdam?), beer bottles are often sold in plastic cartons that are then refunded when returned and reused. Could be handled like that.

In Germany they have the Pfand deposit scheme, where almost all beverage bottles and tins have a deposit charged on them, and shops have automated bottle and crate collecting machines, which you feed your bottles into and get out a receipt which entitles you to the deposit money off your next shop. You see very few stray bottles on the street, and those you do see are set neatly beside the bins for bottle collectors to pick up

You could just return the bottles? The same system exists in Germany - I would just collect bottles in a crate or Ikea bag, and then when full take it to the return machine in the supermarket.I don't know what the implementation is like in the USA, but perhaps it's an inconvenient implementation that's to blame, rather than the entire concept?

Plastic and glass bottle and can recycling is pretty common in most of Europe. You pay a deposit when you buy a can or bottle. And you get it back when you return it. If you leave your empty bottle on the street, some homeless person will return it for you. This is actually a pretty common form of charity in Berlin and it's not considered littering to leave your empty bottle for someone to collect it.It's not a perfect system but most bottles and cans are collected this way and recy

In Germany we already have a deposit scheme for a long time. You can actually return PET bottles anywhere. That does not mean that the company that gets the bottles back recycles them. However, it is an opportunity because you will get back rather pure PET.

Go to somewhere like Germany. You pay a "Pfand" when you buy the plastic bottle and it's noticeably sturdier than in countries without this system. There are machines everywhere (especially in supermarkets) that you can put the bottles into. The machine collects them for cleaning and refilling and you get your Pfand back.The infrastructure isn't crazy and it's working nicely in plenty of countries.

I like the German solution for dealing with glass bottles: rather than recycling, they are made to be washed and reused.You pay a deposit when you buy a bottle of tasty beverage, and some time later, can take those bottles back to the grocery store. There, you put your used bottles into a machine which scans each bottle, and gives you an aggregate receipt for all of the bottles you returned, which you can then use to buy goods at that store.It's a great system for encouraging reuse, a

In Germany you pay a deposit when you buy a bottle and when you bring it back, you get your money back. At least when I lived there the system worked well. there is always a lot of pressure from industry to go one-way though.

I am surprised that noone mentioned about the bottle collectors phenomenon in Germany. [1] Basicly you pay a deposit (.25 eur for plastic ones, 0.08 for glass.) for each beverage you buy and then sell those bottles back in supermarkets. This is maybe the easiest and most efficient way to force people to recycle. Are you lazy to do that or you don‘t have a place when you finish your beer walking in the street?[2] Then you simply leave the bottle next to a trash bin and in couple of minutes someon

Here in Germany there are deposits on plastic bottles for things like coke. The bottles are more sturdy and get re-used multiple times.