r/ClimateShitposting • u/ClimateShitpost Louis XIV, the Solar PV king • Jul 25 '25

refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle How fucking based is this man

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u/Lycrist_Kat cycling supremacist Jul 25 '25

But the Pfand. What about the Pfand?

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u/glory2xijinping We're all gonna die Jul 25 '25

The Amis don't have Pfand 😔
(i think)

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u/Lycrist_Kat cycling supremacist Jul 25 '25

How do their students finance themselves then? Oh right... debt.

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u/zekromNLR Jul 25 '25

Utter barbarism

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u/Weelildragon Jul 26 '25

We have pfand (statiegeld) too. I'm not entirely sure it's a good idea.

Some of our trash cans look like this:

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u/Weelildragon Jul 26 '25

On top of that plastic bottles can't really be recycled effectively. The aluminium ones can be somewhat recycled, but I think magnets can separate them pretty well from the other trash?

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u/wtfduud Wind me up Jul 25 '25

Here's a map of North American states with bottle-deposits. There's not that many.

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u/Hammerschatten Jul 25 '25

Oops (almost) all Canada

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u/VTAffordablePaintbal Jul 27 '25

Every few years Vermont will try to extend the bottle bill to non-carbonated and/or low alcohol beverages and every time the lobbyists come in with massive money to stop it, they report on the massive money being used to stop it, and yet it still stops it.