Walter, in Australia, only South Australia has had a drink bottle/can deposit scheme running for any length of time ( >20 years). You almost never see discarded drink containers there ...View attachment 309917
Nothing spectacular today, just the usual remains of everywhere and anytime.
Just a short remark: there are more and more people who manage just to survive by collecting all the glass and plastic bottles to get the deposit money. Throw-away mentality as help for the poorest? How insane has our society become?
We have such a scheme as well, John. There is 30 Cents on each bottle (glass or plastic). And still there are incredible lots of bottles disposed in the nature. Obviously there are lots of people for whom this amount of money is too little to take the trouble of giving the empty bottles back ... and there are lots of people for whom a bag full of collected empty bottles means a loaf of bread plus something on top.Walter, in Australia, only South Australia has had a drink bottle/can deposit scheme running for any length of time ( >20 years). You almost never see discarded drink containers there ...
Sadly this will augment considerably in the years to come and be normality all over the world.We were very disappointed to see so much trash washed up on Milnerton beach this morning, after a high tide Usually it's clean in that area
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What's really sad is that most styrofoam is recyclable, it's just that no one wants to do it!View attachment 310080
Disposal of styrofoam (polystyrene).
Looks like a complex water bottle.