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Sorry, PET drink bottles.
Special use is different.

Countries all over the world work on a credit system for returning empty glass bottles.
Why is it so difficult for us to implement?

It's not... Coke just didn't want to...

They are made of HDPE Ron.
I don't see a lot wrong with PET, its just the idiots that won't recycle it.

Polyethylene, high density polyethylene...

Coke can club baby seals while sailing on a leaking oil tanker and I would not boycott them. I love coke.

I'm guessing you haven't been fishin in a while Helo!...

LMAO, I fish more than most people. I am 80 miles from shore right now, and have caught red snapper, ling, grouper, amberjack and so on this week.

For some reason, I am not bothered by the idea of baby seals getting clubbed . Perhaps it is because all of the protections we put on marine mammals has caused an explosion of pinnipeds.

Two different plastics mate, PET is polyethylene terephthalate, which does not contain polyethylene (it just has a stupid name).

Most people probably don't know much about Coke's chequered history.... here's a little background...

I pretty much obly drink sodastream sodawater , mmmm no sugar either.

A very small dash of cordial in it is nice but i drink it mostly plain

Coke has every right to oppose a tax (I oppose every tax)

I say let the consumers decide. If enough people boycott coke so that they change their mind then that is great.
So all those in favour of the recycling scheme why don't you get out there and convince people to join the cause.

Surely a peaceful solution is better than an aggressive one (maybe I'm just a peaceful person)?

How was the proposed scheme... a "tax" on Coke???....

It's not a tax
It's a refundable deposit on potential garbage (polution) you get the money returned if you return the garbage.

Without the deposit all the taxpayers are paying for collecting the garbage instead of those poluting.

You don't get it, as usuall. Got to be against it because it's organised by some sort of governing body.
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Isn't it called a "bottle tax" ?

Coke is taxed 10c per bottle ? This "tax" sounds very much like a "tax" to me

So they then have to absorb this arbitrary cost, or pass it on to the consumer. Like all taxes the consumer has to pay for it.

1. This prevents poorer people from purchasing a product they want (those at the margin)
2. Those that still decide to purchase the product then have less money to spend on other things, this makes them poorer overall.

Coke doesn't want this.
Coke of course is free to increase their prices for other reasons, but the price of coke like many other products tend towards the price that balances profit margin with number of goods sold.

Imagine how many sales BYAP would lose if they were forced to increase everything by 10%.
BYAP already have to push their margins low enough to get adequate sales (most businesses do). I'm sure they would like to make their products even cheaper but would not be profitable if they did.

It's not their fault if their customers then decide to use their systems for crimes against seabirds.