Return Of Bottles
Sir,—Empty beer bottles are smashed for destructive pleasure or by negligence because there is little incentive or facility for their conservation. Obvious solutions lie in higher deposits and return at the point of sale. The broken-bottle-cut-feet menace needs more than Utter laws. We need not only positive inducement for the return of bottles but facilities where children can get the deposit baek; they are natural scavengers. Which pub will be first to take back empties from the kids? And which service organisation or club will pay children the current price for empties, just to keep the beaches and parks tidy and safe?—Yours, etc., PETER MEREDITH. Kaiapoi, April 17, 1969.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31967, 19 April 1969, Page 12
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