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I've only been abroad one time, and there were little gecko/lizard things everywhere, climbing up walls and scurrying across roads, and nobody cared. I was constantly fascinated but to the locals they're just kinda there.

Bonus question to anyone who visited the UK - was there anything that fascinated you but I'd be taking for granted?

Pic unrelated.

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[-] Typewar@infosec.pub 79 points 1 month ago

Depositing bottles.

Put them into a machine, and it gives you money back 🤯

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 53 points 1 month ago

Honestly this needs to be more of things in the States. And the deposit cost needs to go up.

If companies were forced to retake their garbage, we'd see far less pollution.

[-] AlsaValderaan 24 points 1 month ago

It's not just that, they wash and reuse the bottles (without melting them down or anything)! Amazing stuff.

They're finally starting to put more stuff in them here opposed to plastic bottles, and I'm so glad for it.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

The US used to do that before the plastics industry (oil company derivatives) squashed it.

[-] Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago
[-] freebee@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

Happens in multiple countries. Germany, Netherlands, Belgium I know for sure. Probably elsewhere too.

[-] Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

Putting more stuff in washable bottles than before happens in many places? Are you sure?

[-] AlsaValderaan 4 points 1 month ago

Oops, sorr. Austria

[-] Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago

In Finland the deposit for bottles of one litre or more have a deposit of 0,40 €.

(And what many foreigners don't understand is that we are not anti-recycling, so it's not a problem that the deposit is inside the prices you see in the shop. So, if you see 1,59 € as the price of a bottle of lemonade, 1,59 € is what you pay. Many countries have a system where the deposit is added to the price so that people would think more negatively about it and they'd sell more of the bottles with the text "NO DEPOSIT!!" on them, so people coming from those countries are easily confused by not having to add anything to the prices in their heads.)

[-] Goldholz 8 points 1 month ago

Nun weiß ganz Deutschland, dass du hier bist

[-] rmuk@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago

I'm in this picture and I don't like it.

But, yeah, seems like such an obviously good idea and it works so well. Why can't we do that?

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