20p return - Page 2

glasgow guy · 18-06-2005, 11:50

In scotland the 20p return on the empty Barr bottle is still alive and kicking, I used to collect 'emptys' with my mates when I was a youngster and when I go up there you still see little kids in the shops cashing them in for sweets - as expensive as it is to re-use glass bottles all those empty bottles that are returned to Barr's in glasgow must save them a good few quid each year - after all they have been doing it now for over 35 years - if there was nothing in it they would have stopped long ago.

Acrylic-bob · 18-06-2005, 14:36

No one is giving anyone 20p. A deposit is an additional charge for the use of the bottle, which is held by the retailer against return. Don't return the bottle, don't collect your 20p. What happens after the bottles are returned is actually immaterial. Smash em and melt em down or reuse them. Though I do accept that bottles filled with oil or whatever else can be a bit of a waste of time if you are going to reuse them. But then surely it is up to the retailer to make sure that he or she does not accept bottles that are obviously contaminated. And from an environmental viewpoint it makes much more sense to use the billions of tons of glass that is already in circulation than constantly using up virgin resources.

Sparkologist · 18-06-2005, 15:07

Irrespective of what has previously been in any returned bottle they are sterilised before being re-used, if they are in fit condition to do so. If any glass is melted down to be recycled, the expense is for heating the furnace and running the casting machinery, natural resource in the form of raw product is not used. I have seen this in operation whilst working at Beatson & Clark's bottle plant in Rotherham.

Even if a shop retailer were to add the cost of a deposit to the price of a bottle of pop or beer, it would add an incentive to return the bottles. When I was a kid, I used to take my dad's Crystal Ale bottles back to the off-licence on Commercial St in Ossy, to collect the deposit which was mine to keep.
The deposit system was alive & kicking whilst we were on holiday in New Zealand earlier this year.

lettie · 18-06-2005, 15:31

Not only should this system apply to glass bottles but also to plastic bottles and drinks cans. Just think, rather than smashing their bottles all over the road, a gang of chavs could pool their Blue WKD bottles together, take them back to the shop and have enough money to buy 10 fags...

staggeringman · 18-06-2005, 17:12

what makes me laugh is when the bottle drinkers come into a pub and order a round of bottles for the lads and lasses,they pick them up off the bar and straight down the neck !......Whats wrong with that i hear you say? have the bottle drinkers never thought what contamination the outer of the bottles have picked up from the bottle plant to the shelf of a fridge. Its been stored at the bottle plant shipped to a warehouse and stored,shipped to a cash and carry and stored,shipped to the final outlet and stored,and the rats,mice,flys ,bugs have all enjoyed peeing/sh...ng all over the bottles

MUMMIBOO · 18-06-2005, 20:04

I will tell ya why glass bottles should be returned to the retailer.

So we dont fill our recycling box up with the bottles. The shops can do it instead.

Margaret Pilkington · 18-06-2005, 20:30

In South Australia all drink cans and bottles can be returned to recycling depots and they get 5c back for every can and bottle........doesn't matter what they are made of.....they are recycled and 5c is what you get.
That may not seem very much but it does encourage kids to pick up the cans and it soon mounts up.
But this system is only in South Australia.......don't ask why......I don't know.

Gayle · 18-06-2005, 20:37

I think it's a good idea.

Don't know if you know or not but HBC runs a pledging scheme with recycling. If you pledge your recycled stuff to a school it goes towards points that the school can spend (presumably on computer stuff or books). I don't quite know how it works, but I assume they weigh the stuff in the blue boxes and white bags to add up how much a school has earned. It encourages people to recycle.

chav1 · 18-06-2005, 20:41

if we got 5p a can i would be picking them up off the street lol

hey ime not proud

staggeringman · 19-06-2005, 01:46

does anyone know the figure H.B.C are making on the recycling of all the waste we wash and put into correct bins for them???Wouldnt it be nice to know and then they go and put the council tax up!!

chav1 · 19-06-2005, 02:12

ime pretty sure HBC can justify the raise in council tax each year and i fully support them in this matter

sorry guys this is my first time experimenting with drugs

Neil · 19-06-2005, 09:57

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Originally Posted by chav1

sorry guys this is my first time experimenting with drugs

FIRST? Are you sure mate I have read many of your posts

chav1 · 19-06-2005, 11:00

I would love to get into an argument with you but i would have to lower my iteligence to that of an idiot where you would clearly beat me on experience

jokin man

cashman · 19-06-2005, 13:49

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Originally Posted by chav1

I would love to get into an argument with you but i would have to lower my iteligence to that of an idiot where you would clearly beat me on experience

jokin man

pmsl best laugh ive had this weekend,bet neil thinks the same.

BLACKBURN RAVER · 19-06-2005, 23:17

WELL IVE BEEN WORKING IN WILMSLOW (CHESIRE) AND THE 20P RETURN ON A BOTTLE IS WELL AND TRULY ALIVE AND KICKING...A CHIPPY THERE SELLS THE BOTTLES (1 LITRE I THINK) FOR 75P AND YOU GET YOUR 20P BACK ....SERIOUSLY IS A GOOD IDEA AS CANS AND PLASTIC BOTTLES RANGE FROM 50P TO A POUND AND THEY DONT CONTAIN NO WHERE NEAR A LITRE