Can do that for spices, nuts, rice etc (not in your hands, but you can bring your own containers), I guess the free refills in the McD could be used for this?Lord_Griff wrote:Cup your hands, pour it out in the shops, leg it home.
Armitage_Shankburn wrote:We need to take things back to the way it was when I was a kid in Algeria. Glass bottles. To buy new stuff, you hand over the empty used bottle, and pay for the contents only. It costs more to get a bottle of coke without handing in a new bottle. The bottle goes back to the factory, is disinfected and reused.
Armitage_Shankburn wrote:We need to take things back to the way it was when I was a kid in Algeria. Glass bottles. To buy new stuff, you hand over the empty used bottle, and pay for the contents only. It costs more to get a bottle of coke without handing in a new bottle. The bottle goes back to the factory, is disinfected and reused.
Nina wrote:@Armitage
We also did that in this small village in Limburg, The Netherlands.
Also always had to keep the egg carton to give back to the farmer.
Just realized that in The Netherlands I could always take bottles (plastic and glass) back to the supermarket and get some money back. Here we all chuck it into the recycle bin.
The bins in malls often also have a trash and recycle part, but than you look closely and it all goes in the same bin bag.
Can do that for spices, nuts, rice etc (not in your hands, but you can bring your own containers), I guess the free refills in the McD could be used for this?Lord_Griff wrote:Cup your hands, pour it out in the shops, leg it home.
Kazuo wrote:Ahh the old glass cheque. Used to get sent down to the corner shop by my dad to exchange the empty Irn Bru bottles, occasionally even got to spend the 20ps on sweets or reduced/out of date packets of crisps to have in a couple of Mortons rolls for lunch.
Kazuo wrote:On the wider recycling point, I'm still amazed that when I went to Sweden nearly ten years ago recycling points for plastic bottles and cans seemed to be in every shop and completely normalised, while I've still yet to see anything similar here despite it being a fantastic idea.
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