If you like flash puzzler like Samorost, you'd want to check out P A R K. Previously posted on Neatorama: Samorost, Samorost 2, Polyphonic Spree: Quest for the Rest |
If you like flash puzzler like Samorost, you'd want to check out P A R K. Previously posted on Neatorama: Samorost, Samorost 2, Polyphonic Spree: Quest for the Rest |
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My parents didn't buy soda pop, but friends' parents would get upset if someone messed with their bottles, because if you didn't bring in bottles when buying soda, you had to pay the 2 cent deposit at the grocery. And that was a lot, because the soda itself was only 4 or 5 cents each.
I don' t know if it's legal though.
Even when I was a kid back in the 70's, we had this. We were horrified when we went to the States and saw all the glass bottles littering the highways.
Some things, like aluminum, are so much easier to recycle than produce, that companies will pay for the scrap without any legal requirement. Other things like glass, take more energy, transportation, and water to recycle than to just make from scratch, while having almost no environmental impact sitting in a landfill. Deposits might be most appropriate for things that are marginally good for recycling, where a recycling company might not be willing to pay for the scrap, but there may be externalities that need to be incorporated into the cost of using the material. But instead of basing recycling on actual environmental impact, too many places use metrics that are not directly helping the environment, or worse, are doing so only to qualify for money from federal/regional government programs.
Quoting p26, "The cost-versus-revenue bottom line for recycling programs is a hotly debated topic, due in part to whether the analysis is strictly fiscal or includes externalities such as reductions in air pollution, energy use, and environmental degradation." :)