[LINK] Surveillance in extremis

[Lea de Groot]

Kim Holburn wrote:
 > Whether it is cost effective depends on whether you add environmental
 > factors in in your economic analysis or you treat the whole world as a
 > free garbage dump.  It also depends on who paid for the study of cost
 > effectiveness!

Indeed, but I suspect the implementation was ill conceived.
If I understand how it is run correctly, the government sits in the 
middle, receiving an amount per bottle form the manufacturer and paying 
out to the consumer.
I think that is inefficient.

I remember recycling cans in Sydney - cans were bought back by the kilo 
and it often seemed to be run as a fund raiser by the local scouts, or 
similar.

Figuring out a similar system for other packaging seems more practical 
and sustainable.

Lea