They should ban all plastic bottles, go back to glass.
Or put a deposit of the cost of the beverage on every bottle. if the beverage cost 1 USD, you pay $2 and you get the $1 back when you return the bottle. Price increases, deposit increases.
Or put a deposit of the cost of the beverage on every bottle. if the beverage cost 1 USD, you pay $2 and you get the $1 back when you return the bottle. Price increases, deposit increases.
Higher deposit for plastic sounds good to me.
The real answer is in giving people clean drinking water at the tap IMO, so many people use bottled water exclusively.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container-deposit_legislation#...
Plus, ever try and return a bottle as a "trash collector" ? Stores will throw you out claiming the bottle was not purchased in the store. So I would say 90% of bottles thrown out end up in a land-fill or in the sea.
I am not sure what you mean by the store turning you away… there is a location where you turn the bottles and cans in to get paid, it is not connected to a store. It is run by the government.
Plastic bottles killed the "consigne", and it seems like we have neither the infrastructure, nor the will, to bring it back.
https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2017/11/15/recy...
I don't know which geopolitical crisis might put us on a different track. A massive shortage of corn sugar ? A popular hoax making parents believe that plastic bottles will turn their kids gay ?