Consumers embrace Ireland’s first bottle deposit return scheme
www.theguardian.com
Since February, 630m empty cans and bottles have been deposited at reverse vending machines
  • @masquenoxEnglish
    8•4 hours ago

    We literally had actual bottle recycling schemes back in the old days when we had people delivering milk and other dairy products.

    But that didn’t fit into big corporations “profiteering-at-all-costs” plans, so they started selling the stuff in plastic.