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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lizjewel, post: 4405018, member: 13874&quot;]I expect that more industries dependent on natural gas to make their product will go back to paying for empties.</p><p><br /></p><p>About time too. Glass in nature and landfills is already too ubiquotous. Time to recycle like we did years ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>My first few years in school (in Sweden) included many class trips we children financed with return monies for bottles, and newspapers too. We had semi-annual school <i>rally runs</i> for this.</p><p><br /></p><p>I remember running up and down thousands of steps in local apartment buildings, ringing door bells and begging the old ladies and gents for their empties!</p><p><br /></p><p>It got to be such a tradition that the residents&nbsp; saved their empties especially for us children instead of personally taking them back. They gave us each just so many bottles per student so they&#039;d be fair to all.</p><p><br /></p><p>Many school trips to museums in other big cities were paid for that way. Also for a wonderful visit to a glass blowing factory, one of my favorite memories.</p><p><br /></p><p>In an example of &quot;it&#039;s a small world&quot;, I was given a figurine by my stepsons for a birthday when I was in my forties here in the U.S.</p><p><br /></p><p>It had a paper label on the back: <a href="https://reijmyre.se/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://reijmyre.se/" rel="nofollow"><b>Reijmyre Glasbruk</b></a>. The very factory I had visited with my classmates when I was 10! You and I can visit it today too, from the link, the site is in English (with some Swedish words).</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d welcome a return of glass bottles, it could mean an income for children for one and lessen the fill in landfills too.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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