When I lived in LA my recycling never made it to the truck because homeless dumped all the recycling all the ground to grab some of it for deposit. Deposits made that city so much dirtier
Different deposit. These are deposits where you yourself go to the store and return the item’s packaging. You are talking about the recycling program.
What you say is not true. Recycling is not all over the street, people that deposit are generally respectful and clean that shit up. I live in LA, and recycling gets to the truck just fine.
Maybe if you made it easy for people by leaving a bag of bottles, or participating in the program yourself, you wouldn’t have that problem with your local “homeless person”.
So are the check-in discounts. I downloaded Aliexpress to get some screenshots to prove a point.
Got curious about the discounts. Did the coin thing and got $5 credit immediately. Then I’m like F it let me search my current Amazon cart and see if it’s cheaper.
Went from $80 with Prime, to $21 with Aliexpress.
I obviously ordered. The thing is, apparently they do that to everyone. Save your first order with them something obscure, cause you only get the crazy deal first order. Mine was two cool flashlights I’d been wanting.
Went to a music festival where they did this. It worked amazingly well. You’d get a 2 euro refund for returning your cups/bottes. I doubt Americans could be trusted with such responsibilities though (this was in Germany).
I'd be shocked if concert goers anywhere wouldn't want to save a little money. It's been years since I've been to one (my wife gets migraines triggered by loud sounds,) but the price of drinks was always absurdly high.
Douche festivals? Which festivals in the US don’t have issues with garbage on the ground after each night ends? Look at any major insomniac festival and that’s the status quo. We aren’t as bad as the British at least.
Insomniac has a massively douchey crowd. Haha if that’s your example of “not douchey” that’s crazy. It’s almost as bad as HARD.
I was just at LiB and the stages were well picked up. Eclipse is the same way. Northern Nights is the same way. Desert Hearts is far better with trash than anything I have seen. Cleaner than Japan. What the Fest? was like this as well. RIP.
I have no doubt desert hearts would be good. I used to run with that crew back in 2017. I’ve been to LIB and the end of the nights look similar to insomniac fests. Lib should honestly try out the refund scheme many euro festivals do to limit single use plastics
Every festival in the US with a trash problem seems to do this.
Funny you say americans can’t be trusted, because the “transformational festivals” like eclipse, lib, deaert hearts, do not have a bottle deposit or a trash problem. People just pick up their trash.
Americans can’t be trusted. Look at the dance floors when people leave festivals. Even lib gets trashy on the grounds after the end of each night. It’s disgusting walking out of almost any insomniac festival besides Dreamstate
That’s the issue. People can help it, they just choose to be lazy. It’s why a glass bottle deposit scheme would never work here cuz Americans would just end up dropping them on the ground and leaving them.
Weird every insomniac festival I’ve been to sold me drinks in plastic and I’d just have to put it in a recycling bin. Which festivals have they done the deposit setup for drink purchases?
I stopped going to anything insomniac run awhile back once I found out the owner is a lowkey maga dude 😂. I wish there were more smaller east coast festivals with more newer styles that are popping off in Europe. But america is always a few years behind Europe.
I experienced it at a festival in Germany and another in Croatia. It worked very well! But Europeans don’t seem to get as messed up as the Americans do at festivals. I just imagine smashed glass all over the place 😂
Oooh is that what you are getting at? It read to me that you are saying we wouldn't be capable? I have heard that people in Europe do handle their alcohol much better. Good point.
So i can't judge that part but burning man goers are pretty good at taking all their trash with then dumping all their trash in Reno(nearest big city to burning man). I so I would think we are capable but some people are assholes lol.
There’s a reason Europeans call British people the Americans of Europe 😂 burning man is a rare example. It also has a much more mature crowd with an entire CULTure built around it haha
The local brewery to me in Pennsylvania does this. A case of returnable bottles is the same price as a case of non-returnables, but you get a $7 discount if you bring back a full case of empties
Yeah I do it with milk bottles! I was mainly referring to the fact that they did it at a festival I went to. I couldn’t imagine this working at an American festival
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u/sexytokeburgerz Sep 10 '26
Deposits are effective.