On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:32:45 +0000, Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:

The old system of deposit returnable bottles did work quite well in its
day; (fond memories of a tanner a jar and tuppence a bottle) kids are
natural scavengers for that kind of thing, but nowadays it probably
wouldn't work unless things get much worse.

I think it would if you got 5p back on your empties. Might stop the local
youth smashing their bottles around the Market Cross and shelter...

The argument that would be put up against it is that you'd have to have
people coming round to to collect the empties. Note plural they would
insist that each different makers bottle would have to be sorted by the
store and collected by that maker.

The obvious way around that is for the empty delivery lorry/dray to take
them en-mass bacl to the distribution depot were they can be sorted and
the makers empty delivery vans can take them back to the maker for reuse.

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Cheers
Dave.