Tºm Shermªn™ °_° wrote:

On 4/17/2011 3:27 AM, Blue Heeler wrote:
[...]
My commute is 25km from one of the northern beach suburbs of Cairns,
Australia.


The main problem is that there are a large number of fools
hereabouts who throw glass (mostly beer bottles) out of car
windows, secondary problems is that the area is one of rapid growth
which means lots of things like screws, nails metal off-cuts
etc.[...]

Do you have a bottle deposit law?

We do not.
Here in the US, broken glass is
much less of a problem in states that require retailers to offer
between $0.05 and $0.15 for each empty glass beverage bottle (mostly
beer bottles) returned, compared to states with no deposit law.

Other States in Australia have both glass and plastic bottle deposit
and have a consequent much lower litter problem.



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