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>> >> > About 10 years ago I went to an ALDI store in Chicagoland with this
>> >> > girl at the time. The shopping cart deposit system was kind of
>> >> > silly
>> >> > to me.
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>> > It's standard practice in Britain.
>> > In Europe many people still walk to the smkt , so stealing trolleys to
>> > take heavy purchases home, is a temptation to some.
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>> > Janet
>> Here, it's generally the down and outs that steal them for bottle picking
>> (getting the deposits back for booze).
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> We used to have bottle deposits (a source of income in my childhood)
> but not for years now.
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In the next couple of weeks, the local cubs/scouts troop will have a
bottle-drive as a fundraiser. When my sons were cubs, we used to raise
about a thousand quid this way on a Saturday morning. Plastic milk bottles
and tetrapaks also have a deposit. We've had wheelie-bins for 6 months now
for recyclables and I could put the deposit stuff in that and the city would
get the money but I prefer to save it for the cubs.
Graham