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I'm skeptical. I remember when you could get 10 cents back for every glass bottle you returned here in Indiana when I was a kid and people still didn't bother. And 10 cents then was worth a lot more than 20 Euro cents now.
Also, isn't most plastic packaging non-recyclable anyway?
We have that cashback system in Germany, each bottle has between 7 to 25 cent surcharge and it works extremely well. And those bottles are basically pure PET, which is extremely recyclable.
And reusable is nearly always better than recyclable
Except this ...
https://phys.org/news/2023-11-scientists-hundreds-toxic-chemicals-recycled.html
Sure it does work well because I am losing money in case I don't bring it back. I really hope it just stays with the bottles and not implemented for other packaging.
It's always picked up by people to get money in Germany and Denmark (if the original purchaser doesn't get it back).
How much energy does recycling them use? Because that's another issue I see. If recycling LDPE, PET or MDPE ends up having a bigger carbon footprint than just throwing them away, that should be a factor.
It shouldn't, because the energy can be green.
They're paying people to recycle, they're not charging them for it. So it is free for people to recycle and whoever is paying for recycling is losing money.
But otherwise, fine.