HahahaI can imagine. It's quite a common sight on the continent, though, at least where I've lived - unlike us those Europeans still tend to have deposits on their bottles, so you see people going around fishing bottles out of hedges and out of people's bins to reclaim the deposits. (And immediately reinvest it in some gut-churning rotgut that passes for cheap beer.)
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boris the spider,
Mon 30 Apr 2012, 10:56,
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never understood why they don't re-introduce bottle deposits hereI remember deposits on Corona lemonade as a kid and even Irn-Bu glass bottles in the 90's. Every organisation seems to bend over backwards to show how environmentally friendly they are but this idea is repeatedly ignored.
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Dick Wonder ₐ wₒₙₖy, wₐᵥy wₒₙdₑᵣ,
Mon 30 Apr 2012, 11:07,
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They were doing deposits on Barr's until at least the early 2000sPity they seem to have stopped doing it. Deposits on cans in particular can be really high on the continent, and there are a hell of a lot fewer cans lying around as a result.
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Mon 30 Apr 2012, 12:45,
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