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Beverage bottle & can recycling

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    Beverage bottle & can recycling

    Many countries have a simple deposit scheme for beverage bottles and cans



    Would this work in HK?

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    It would be too logical here.


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    If you make recycling easy and profitable then you will deprive many 85-yr-olds of enough money to buy a meal. If they aren't out pushing trolleys and dodging death on the roads, they won't be as fit and will not be able to enjoy their old age...

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    I see old ladies digging through bins around town, looking for cans / bottles. I see the local recycler's trucks come around our estate and the helpers giving them 100-200 kgs of newspapers, cans etc, every Sunday morning.

    Not sure if we have reached the UK participation rate of 57% - which is quite good.

    Do we really need a govt legislated solution?


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    It already exists and works - some glass bottles sold at 7-11 have a deposit which is refunded if you return the bottle the shop.


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    Quote Originally Posted by JAherbert:
    It already exists and works - some glass bottles sold at 7-11 have a deposit which is refunded if you return the bottle the shop.
    It is not mandatory and is only used by some companies that have high value bottles. For most F&B brands find it easier to produce low cost disposable packaging and let society pay for the landfill costs.

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    Back home in Melbourne and in Paris, we have dedicated recycle wheelie bins issued to each home owner on top of a normal wheelie bin. So it's just something society living in these places do. And it works very well. We also have a hard rubbish pick up organised a couple of times a year where you can leave larger items like old sofas and tired ikea furniture, bags of grass clippings etc on the nature strip out front of your home, saving you a trip to the tip.

    Also in France at the supermarket, they don't have any free plastic bags available at the till/register so so you are forced to bring your own. The supermarkets are also forced to give food ( dented tinned food etc) that's still safe/edible to the poor'(neighbourhood food banks) instead of throwing it all in the bin.

    I find people back home in both locations to be pretty good when it comes to recycling awareness and participation.

    I do not agree that a city that is as insanely rich as Hong Kong, has a % of its elderly population, rummaging through garbage cans to make some money to survive.

    That would be really embarrassing to me... Seems Hong Kongers are very good at turning a blind eye...

    Last edited by Skyhook; 23-02-2017 at 11:31 AM.