Yeah, because it’s only you who isn’t abusing anyone...

Or you can rinse your bottles and cans once they’re empty.

Not to be too smug here but “reverse vending machines” are in every supermarket in Germany. There has been a mandatory deposit on bottles for ages (and since 15 years a deposit also on plastic bottles and cans). In earlier ages or smaller shops there’s still people giving back the deposits when your turn up with an…

I’m not so sure that “Italian guy” and “vending machine” are synonymous.

No harm to anything but the author’s reputation as a journalist.

It’s just odd for a US-based outlet to talk about it like it’s a strange new concept being trialed in the UK. And there’s the bit asking “but is a 13-cent voucher really what’s standing in the way of people recycling?”, which you’d think would be an interesting thing to spend 5 minutes googling.

I think part of it is that we’re expected to recycle for free, just for the environment. When I was a kid, I’d collect beer cans, crush them, and when I had a few trash bags worth, my dad would haul them to the center for a few dollars. Hauling a couple of pounds of aluminum an hour away in a pickup did fuck all for…

Unless you’re writing about it as if it’s something new and exotic. This article was the equivalent of someone from Oregon writing about how there’s this brand new thing being tested in Belgium self-serve gasoline! It might even be rolled out more widely someday!

Dude, you done with that machine yet?

Is this serious? Ever heard of CoinStar?

Iceland (as if you couldn’t tell) specialises in frozen foods. They have several initiatives aimed at removing palm oil from products and reducing plastic packaging where possible. A 10p voucher might not sound much, but if you return ten bottles then that is £1. Every little counts, to borrow a rivals catchphrase.…

Yes.

TIL, Kate has never been to Michigan where every supermarket has these for cans.

Have you seriously never seen a bottle deposit machine?  Really?  

Are you under ten years old?

But is a 13-cent voucher really what’s standing in the way of people recycling?

Obviously the only way to find anything good to report on these days is to pretend things that happened decades ago are news.

Uhhhh

You mean this thing that we’ve deen doing in a dozen states for decades?

Alta Vista is good, I hear.