It's amazing how countries look at waste issues differently, how individual countries create incentives for recycling and others fail completely. However, I doubt that a bottle deposit is necessary for people to recycle their plastic bottles: in Switzerland, we do not pay for a bottle deposit, neither on plastic nor on glass bottles, and yet we have a recycling rate of 82% for plastic bottles. For glass, it should be similar high. The reason for this is probably that everywhere - at railway and bus stations, in shopping centers, offices, etc. - recycling containers are available. Alone the possibility of correct disposal combined with savings in chargeable house sweep are apparently sufficient as an incentive ...
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