“In Norway, you get a small amount of money for recycling bottles/cans. They’re often collected by poor people or the homeless.”
Norway has been at the forefront of establishing a deposit return system (DRS) for reusable bottles since 1902, making it one of the first countries in the world to do so. The country’s system for non-refillable or “one-way” containers like cans and PET was implemented in 1999. What makes Norway’s DRS unique is that it was created voluntarily by the beverage and grocery retail industries. Today, a basic tax for beverage producers is imposed on all single-use containers, and a variable environmental tax is reduced as return rates increase.
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