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There is a deposit included in the price of most glass bottles in Poland, but there is also some mix of regulations and store practices that seems targeted at the poor/homeless, to prevent them from making money by collecting bottles in trash cans. I remember having stores refuse larger batches of return bottles without a proof they were originally bought at that particular store. Maybe someone else knows more details; it's just something I observed some years ago.


Poor or homeless people collecting cans is widespread in Denmark. Teenagers especially seem to discard them if they're not at home.

Many litter bins have a small shelf for bottles, to save people rooting around in the rubbish.

Somehow, the fancy supermarket never has poor people returning the bottles at the machine, but the cheap one 200m away always does.


Probably because the bottle collectors don't want to spend the money they get on overpriced luxury stuff, so they prefer the discount store where the prices are better.




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