Norway Recycles 97% of their Plastic Bottles

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To be honest, not everyone is a stone-cold robot who turns a blind eye to pressing problems such as this. Infinitum, a Norway-based organisation , has its plastic bottle deposit hub right outside Oslo. They recycle roughly 97% of the plastic bottles in Norway to be reused by the public. According to Sten Nerland, director of logistics and operations, plastic is one of the best products that can be used because of its cheap, malleable qualities, provided you figure out a full-proof way to recycle it. Efficiency is the key motto in Infinitum, as they operate with two key incentives. The first is to minimalize the taxes paid by companies. Recycling would reduce their taxes to virtually zero. The second incentive is to instil in the minds of people that the bottles are not to be thrown away but to be deposited for recycling, which is why they have to deposit an amount while purchasing a bottle.

sherms89 on June 8th, 2019 at 16:34 UTC »

In Germany all the different beer brands use same style bottle. Consumers drink the product and return to a company that washes and sterilize them, then the bottles get redistributed to the different beer companies and the cycle starts again. Be nice if America could implement this with all beverages.

NetScr1be on June 8th, 2019 at 13:56 UTC »

This article is so bad it is almost clickbait.

multiple errors in the copy (grammar, spelling) copy does not fulfill the promise in the headline the whole article can be summed up in one paragraph. In other words, it is all lead and no story.

It's almost completely content-free

Source: me (former journalist)

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SupremePanda6 on June 8th, 2019 at 13:43 UTC »

I read the article...what is Norway's method of incentivizing citizens to recycle?

It was not clear to me.