I read this great new article today on the BBC website about charging a deposit on bottles with the idea that it will stop people littering, encourage recycling and save the country £160million a year.
If each bottle you buy has a deposit of 15-30p on it then most of us are going to take that bottle back. The more bottles being taken to these special centers means less bottles scuttling around the UK littering everything up and also so much more recycling will be happening. If these centers are cheap to run and situated in supermarkets and town centers, places we can all get to easily then what could possibly be wrong with this plan? It is absolutely fantastic. The sooner it happens the better!
Unless it means country-wide robberies of people's recycling bins...
As Bill Bryson put it: "What sensible nation would not want to capture and recycle its precious and finite resources? What discerning people would not want to enjoy a litter-free environment?
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