Consumers embrace Ireland’s first bottle deposit return scheme
www.theguardian.com
Since February, 630m empty cans and plastic bottles have been deposited at reverse vending machines
  • masquenox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    29 days ago

    We literally had actual bottle recycling schemes back in the old days when we had people delivering milk and other dairy products.

    But that didn’t fit into big corporations “profiteering-at-all-costs” plans, so they started selling the stuff in plastic.

    • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      29 days ago

      …yyyeees, but I was also a lot cheaper and used a lot less fuel because the plastic was far lighter to carry around than glass.

      How that balances out, no idea, sorry… I’m hoping it was better but may have been due to plastic subsidies or something equally evil

      • masquenox@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        29 days ago

        was also a lot cheaper

        That’s what they told me when I was a kid - and now I live in a country where 20% of the population can’t even afford milk. So I have to ask - cheaper for whom?

        been due to plastic subsidies or something equally evil

        Don’t know, but it sure did allow the big supermarket chains to monopolize the dairy supply business.