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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (14 children)

They'll have to wait with just taking the deposit money since for quite a long time you wouldn't know if they're returning it or not. And if it's anything like other systems, you can return it to different place than the one you paid for, which requires moving money around and whatnot. And there's the issue of getting them from the stores to be recycled and overall upkeep and governance of the system and so on.

The systems are a lot more complex than one might think at first.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (5 children)

@RaivoKulli @TWeaK if someone hands you 10 cans, they've handed you 10 cans. How don't you know?
They don't need tracking.

(If a store hands you 100kg of cans, they've handed you 100kg. Audit would need you to weigh them and know their name, but little else.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I'm sure shops will be happy to pay out of pocket for cans not purchased from them. You'd need some form of balancing in the system.

Like I said, seems very simple if you don't really think about it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

@RaivoKulli (I don't need to think hard about it, I grew up with it running)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Might want to give it some thought what it took to actually run it. I grew up with bottle and can deposit system but it would be a disservice to not recognize what it took to get it running and what it takes to run it now.

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