Plastic to pay for your bus trip

Wizard_of_Id

Around the world, smart reverse vending machines are making it possible to swap plastic bottles, other recycling and litter for transport and even cinema tickets.
It's like turning waste into currency!
Would you do it?
https://www.facebook.com/worldeconomicforum/videos/288942761832225/
Let's hope we see some of these fun and useful reward systems popping up around the UK. The government has already pledged to roll out a Deposit Return Scheme for plastic bottles with some trails already happening.

TheMoneySpider

I think that is perfect, it would make a real change in attitude, especially if it was targeted at the young. It would help make throwing away glass and plastics a really silly thing to do because the carrot of a reward is always there.


It'd cut down on littering too. My only worry is that we'd need to be careful to not incentivise it so much that it becomes crime-worthy.

Wizard_of_Id

I see a car park in Leeds has taken up this idea :T :T :T

BBC story