American Reacts to Recycling in Norway
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- čas přidán 17. 05. 2023
- As an American I like to think we do an ok job at recycling, but I have absolutely no idea what recycling in Norway is like. Today I am very excited to learn about how Norwegians recycle and what incentives the government offers. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
As kids we would pick up bottles on the streets and get enough money to buy a few bags of candy.
Yep we did 🙂We used to visit the hiding places in parks where drunks and narks had been and collect all the bear bottles. I either spent money on candy, cola or matchbox car 😀
@CentralizedCore I did this too. Straight after school on the 18th of May we were out with a bag collecting all bottles people had thrown at the road side and bins.
Not from 1902. 😂 But the last 4-5 decades.
The pante lottery is one of the most important sources of income for the Red Cross. Since 2008, the lottery has contributed over 600 million to humanitarian work, both locally, nationally and internationally. Half of the funds to the Red Cross goes to the local branches where the pante stations are located.
I play the pante lottery from time to time, and I even won once. A little bit less than I would have gained from taking the pante receipt. 😅
Remember that Olav Thon owns the lottery and only a part of what you give is going to Red Cross
@@Kari.F. 65% less at average to be exact.
Recycling bottles is probably one of the dumbest ideas in human history. Countries using robots to sort trash at the trash sorting facility recycle slightly fewer bottles than countries where you need to deposit a fee when buying beverages. The difference is so small it doesn't justify the huge amount going into automats at every store, all the work stores are obligated to do, and all the extra transport that goes into picking up all the crushed bottles. It costs a few billion extras a year for no gain. The correct place to deal with trash is by sorting it using robots. Such robots sort EVERYTHING. It's a complete waste of time even to sort into glass, metal, wood, plastic, food, and everything else. It's all so wasteful and dumb only politicians would come up with this moronic idea.
@@CZcams_Stole_My_Handle_Too they have "pantemaskin" on Long Island , seen it on TV (and possibly in other states as well)
@@postersandstuff Only in Michigan and Oregon are the deposit scheme for bottles anything that resembles how it is in Scandinavia. In NY it is very limited and still at the experimental stage. It is highly unlikely that the USA will adopt the model and surely not after huge sorting machines at the landfill facilities are getting more common. The Scandinavian model is helplessly stupid.
The recycling machines have been a standard in every grocery store in Norway for around 30 years now. The fact that the US hasn't picked up this technology yet is strange.
More than 30. I saw the first one in Høvik around 1970, and by 1980 they were everywhere.
@@Yngvarfo in the old days people could trick the censors to get more money from the machine :P
Germany just recently got them though. And they are using your machines, made by Tomra ;)
I'm in my fifties, and I've recycled bottles as long as I can remember. As children we used to swap a couple or three empty bottles for an ice cream cone 🙂 Recycling bottles has become so ingrained that it feels like a deadly sin to throw empties in the trash...
same in sweden...
Yes, the only differace is, it used to be glass-botles, and now its plasic and aluminium-cannes instead 👍
He forgot to mention that the proceeds from the lottery goes to the Norwegian red cross. The Recycling Lottery has been operational in Norway since 2008, and annually generates substantial contributions to the Red Cross. And you can win up to 50 million NOK. Before 2008 we only had the green buttons. The little reciepts you get van be used in the grocery store to pay your items or to take out the money in cash.
Behind the machine there is a robot sorting and crushing the plastikk and metal into big squares that are picked up by a recycling firm.
Sports teams and other organisations that need funding offentlig around asking for people to sonate their bottles etc for them to recycle or they voluntaire to clean up festivals etc.
You can't win 50 million in one go. There are only 12 top prices at 1 million per year.
My father is a huge beer lover and he collected the bottles in huge bags in his balcony for me to come and take the bags to the store. The bottles were worth more than $120. All beer bottles tho’ so i felt so embaressed. The employer in the store told me that he had to change the bag in the other end from time to time and since i had so many bottles he came 3-4 times to change it - everytime there is an alarm alerting them that its full on the other side.
There is a lot of ppl that use their day to collect bottles but it’s looked at as a low status thing to do. I guess most of them have some kind of issues with mentalhealth or drug/alcohol addiction. But hey - it’s an honest way to earn money, tax free and better than doing crimes. Besides it cleans the nature if they pick it from parks and beaches.
It’s a good system that works for the most👍🏼😊
This is technology we have had since the 70s 😅
In Norway we got the first bottle return machine in 1972.
Via the lottery you can win 1.000.000nkr=93.600dollars in currenT money. The more bottles you enter, the more lottery tickets will be selected so the winner chances increses.
Currently you get 3nkr for big bottles and 2nkr for the small ones.
In 2018 we returned 98.5% of the plastic bottles and soda cans.
Most of europe has these machines of some sort, but Norway is on top when it comes to recycle bottles.
Therefore you don't find that much bottles in bins and throwed away anymore. Glass bottles is nearly a thing of the past here and in 2018 the return system for those was laid down. So you don't get money for those anymore.
As a kid, we loved to collect bottles from bums, drunks and places where those had been, and then returned the bottles to spend the money on candy. Some of us did not get weekly allowance so only chance to get some extra candy or buy matchbox cars etc was to return bottles.
Most of the time people don't throw it in the trash. If you dont intend to recycle it you put is beside the trashcan, lots of people pick it up and return it and make some decent cash. So it just makes it easier for them. Also a tip to Norwegians that have cans from Sweeden etc. if you give it to the Red cross containers they get money for it as it goes by weight. Not the barcode wich is normally read by the machines in stores. Yes I know you can return them in machines, but you dont get money for it. But Red cross do.
I didn’t know about that! Thank you! Will make sure to press the cross, especially after a Harrytur!
Those machines are actually a norwegian invention from 1972 even though it has come to more countries later
My city in sweden has trashcans with a cylinder on the side for bottles, so that people dont have to digg in the actual trash
The refund system is very old, and every seller of bottled or canned beverages MUST take part in the scheme. At least, back in the day, collecting bottles was a common way for children to get some pocket money, especially on celebration days, festivals and so on. Fun story: Went to high school in Bergen, but lived on an island just west of the town. Now connected with a bridge, but 40 years ago, a 17 minute car ferry crossing from the city centre. We were broke all the time, but some of us still had mopeds or light motorbikes. So, when the ferry approached the jetty and the passengers left the seating areas, we ran around, collected all the bottles the passengers had left behind (these were big ferries, carrying a lot of people and cars). Then we drove to the local petrol station, filled a few litres and (partly) paid with the bottles! The owner was not happy, but he sold cold soda and had to accept the bottles as payment!
During and after festivals, it is common for people who have the opportunity and who need the extra money to make quite a bit of money collecting empty bottles and cans and recycle them.
Seeing you have such a big reaction to normal every day things is so amusing to me
Bottles/Cans has a depositum you have to pay whenever you buy a drink, it's meant to incentivize recycling by way of taking away 2 Kroner or 3 Kroner (depending on the bottle/can) when you buy it and giving them back when you pant them. A lot of people will keep the bottles/cans in the large black trash bags until they have a, or several, full bags before they bring them to the store to pant, and some stores will have newer machines where you open a hatch that reveals a big room where you can throw all the bottles/cans inside and close the hatch for the machine to sort through and pant them all for you, other stores will only have the manual machines as shown in this video.
The money from the lottery goes to red cross, they help people in need.
The "bottle lottery" have prizes of 50, 100, 1000, 10000 and 1 million Norwegian crowns. From what I read the average chance of winning something is every 15th time, but of course if you show up with a truckload, chances increases.
kroner*
You don't translate the name of a currency, lire is lire, dollar is dollar, krone is krone, yen is yen and so on.
We have had these machines in Denmark too for many years. You can even donate your bottlemoney to charity or go and get the money from the cashier. In some places there are bigger machines you can push a hole sack of bottles in at once..instead of one at a time.
Our schools have recycling day where evrybody is out to clean the city or beach areal for trash. I have a friend who bike to work and sometimes you can see her bike next to a ditch next to the road....she is collecting so many bottles or cans that also goes into the machine. So funny to give her a honk while drivning by....
You just see this hand reaching up with a bottle...🎉😂
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As a child, I did this all the time and felt so rich when I got enough to buy candy
I love his fascination of this concept, it’s something a lot of countries in norther Europe do (and in other parts) I truly feel it is something that should be fairly easy to implement in more places around the world
Tyler, when you buy soda or other drinks in cans and bottles there is a small fee you pay on the price on each bottle or can. When we have finished them we bring it back to the store and put it in the collection machines and get money back. Like savings if you save up coins in a bottle, so we usually save up many so the amount will be higher. If you push the lottery button instead of the other normal button you donate your bottle fee to RedCross. Never win so I need the cash back myself, sorry I am poor. It s for not to litter or make garbage/waste.
some states (around 10 ?) in the US has bottles/cans refund , for ex in Michigan its 10 cents......its not legal to visit MI from other states tho to get more money , its 5 cents there
@@postersandstuff thank you for info. Greetings from Norway
All boxes and plastic bottles of soda, beer, lemonade, juice etc is listed with a price for the goods in store. This price is always given as price of soda/beer/juice + deposit. The deposit is 2 or 3 kroner, depending on the size of the container. This deposit is what is paid out when returning the bottle.
Ølboks = Beer can.
08:43 The bottles go on a conveyer belt from the insert, through a scanner that scans the barcode on the label of the bottle (this is how the machine knows how much kroner to assign), then either to be dropped down into an automatic crusher, or all the way to the end to be dropped into huge see-through trash bag. When either the crushing machine or the bags are full, the machine will stop working and start blearing an annoyingly loud noise to indicate that it needs a worker to empty the crusher/exchange the full bags with empty bags.
It seems that in the US only 5% of bottles are recycled, the rest ended up in landfills, oceans or scattered in the atmosphere in tiny toxic particles. In Norway it is almost the reverse with 92% of all bottles (and here we include aluminum cans) being recycled.
lots of plastic bottles get recycled , at least in CA i believe
@@postersandstuff I suppose that is where the 5% comes from then.
Just to address the most common complaint… yes, some robots at waste plants may be more effective -but they’re doing nothing more than sorting! The automates also is a big part in changing the attitude, set focus to the trash problems and highlighting each and everyone’s responsibilities-and it works!
I very much remember when we didn’t have pante-machines and the difference in attitude and how much we do recycle is huge! We could get money back from recycling when I was a kid, but it was a struggle for stores to handle without a good system and an even bigger struggle to handle yourself -but the main difference is the enormous change in attitude… and THAT is why we NEED these machines.
As of now we get 3kr for big bottles and 2kr for cans and small bottles -so 4 bottles give us approximately 1 US$. Yes, we do pay those kr when we buy, but this way we’re encouraged to return the bottles and also not wasting our money -and people who put in extra effort and pick up ‘stray’ bottles are rewarded with some extra money.
Also, the pant machine is in all supermarkets, so even in my town with 5000 people max there's 5 of those machines within 20 seconds walk of each other. In Cph they could have 100 shops around you where you can get rid of them.
We have the same system in the Netherlands. Many people throw their bottles and cans away while they're in line for example a concert or football game (soccer). There are people that are sweepint the surroundings for those bottles and cans. Delivering all those at the special machines the amount can run up to € 300,-.
i find the german machines more slow than those in Norway , theyre not as rapid
This was a great source of income as a child. We had this yearly huge island music festival close to where I lived and the morning after the festival, we would go there and just pick up all the beer bottles we could carry and return them for cash. It was like Klondyke to us. :) If it was today, you could probably have made five hundred dollars in a few hours doing that.
Different bottles depending on size gives you different amounts of money, the lottery costs 1 krone per lottery ticket and that money goes to red cross. You can win 50, 100, 1000, 10000 or 1 million kroner, I have won a bunch of 50s and 1000 once.
Actually each ticket is 0.5 NOK
they add the cost of the recycle fee "pant" ontop the price when you buy it. so by recycling it you only get back what you paid for the bottle.. but most people just throw it away and ppl go around and collect them from the trash.
you either get all your money back or you can press that red cross and you give the money to which is like a volunteer medical organization that works to prevent and alleviate human suffering.. and that gives you a small chance of winning in that lottery, i think the more you "pant" for the higher chance it is to win.
He said you could collect a million bottles and cans instead, but then you would have between 2 and 3 million Norwegian kroner. BTW, 1 dollar is now close to 11 NOK.
06:10 When I last visited USA with my Dad in California and Nevada, we saw places that had a worker stationed on the outside of the building with a machine kind of like this one, you would hand over the bag of bottles to the worker and the worker would then put the bottles into the machine. Other places had the same setup, but instead of a machine, the worker counted all the bottles and handed over the money or a slip (we didn't actually recycle bottles here, so I don't know for sure what the worker did after counting them all), and then there were the more actual recycle areas that would have you throw your bottles into a press machine that pressed all the bottles flat and then weighed the bottles, then the workers would give you money depending on the weight of the bottles you recycled.
yes , bottle deposit centers
Back in on the 4th of February 2017, someone at my local grocery store, where I shop every day, won 1 million Norwegian Kroner (Approx $90,560.00USD) by pressing that red cross button. The store even has a poster hung up about it because it was such a big deal. I was present at the time and the noise was... insane. If he won, you would know because the recycling machine throws a fit if you do, playing a really loud jingle to alert the staff.
More and more countries are adopting this system.
I think they're so slow and should've had this system already, everywhere.
You can both collect bottles and earn a million AND you can join the lottery to potentially win over a million.
When you buy a beverage in bottle or cans you pay a deposit on the container, it is this deposit you get back in the machine...
Some people do not bother collecting the deposit and throw them in the trash when out and about..
For those cases they have made bottle racks attached to the outside of public garbage cans, so the bottles and cans are easy available for those whom collect empty bottles...
My daugther plays handball. They walk house to house asking for peoples bottles so they can get money for their team to play in tournaments. Its kinda normal here. When I was a kid I spent some saturdays behind this automat to sort the bottles with a friend of mine who played handball. Again to earn money for the team, so that it wont be so expensive to join handball and more kids can afford it.
The one buying the bottle is paying in advance the money you get when its returned, it doesnt come from the store/goverment etc. The return system doesnt count for all bottles, only bottles with own labels, and they need the barcode to be scanned in the machine. It goes for most glass/metal/plastic beer/energy drink/soda/water etc bottles in the range 250ml-2L.
You pay a fee when you buy bottles and get it back when you recycle in the shop.
I won in the bottle lottery like 5 times, but only small amounts, biggest was like 20 dollars.
The recycling system has been in effect for decades. A certain amount of the price you pay for the sodabottles go to fund the recycling. The word "pant" means "pawn" and is the amount you pay extra for the bottles when you buy the beverage. When you return them, you get it paid back.
This is a very popular extra income for junior sports clubs who organize the kids to go and collect bottles in the neighborhoods. I always give them what I have when the local clubs com to my door.
In Germany, we have these machines, too. Deposit on bottles and cans is worth between 8 and 25 Euro ct. Some supermarket chains have an alternative button for donating money to a charity organization that distributes essentials like food, beverages, and toiletries to low-income families for cheap.
When they first introduced the machines and deposit on one-way bottles and cans some 20 years ago I wrote down all the bottles and cans I found while walking the dog and pushing the pram. I made just shy of 50 Euros without looking for them. People who don't want to bring their empty bottles and cans back to the supermarket often leave them beside trash cans and bins so that people who collect the bottles and cans don't have to search the trash.
The machines crush the cans and bottles flat for packing in a big plastic bag in a reusable bin.
Once it's filled up, it gets packed, taken out, and shipped off from the store to the recycling center.
Where with the use of magnets, they sort metal from plastics to then recycle.
Your reaction to this machine is so funny! I have been in many European countries and such machines are everywhere. It is strange that they don´t exist in USA. In Denmark, where I live, trashbins have extra section to put bottles, so it is easy for people who gathers bottles to pick them, they don´t need to go through all the trash.
We have same system in Sweden but I have never seen a button where you can choose to be in a lottery. If you do not win maybe the pant goes to charity? In Sweden some machines have two buttons so you have a choice between getting some money or donate to charity.
Yes, all proceeds go to Red Cross😊
Normally we do not throw the cans/bottles in the bin but we put them beside the bin some bins have rim around the bin specifically for bottles, but they won't stay for too long as there is always someone to take them.
Local sports teams finance important acquisitions such as uniforms and various equipment through bottle collection. You get 18 and 28 cents each for the bottles, respectively.
In a nutshell: We pay a a small fee when buying a bottle or can. It is returned to us upon recycling. Not everyone bothers so you can often find bottles and cans in the trash and at that point it's all net gain. During payout you have the option to get your money as is or spend it on tickets for the lottery. If you don't win it is donated to the red cross
Imagine the waiting line outside the recycle machine if every person tryed to push the lottery button for every bottle they had. XD
the system doesnt work that way , you cannot trick the machine by pressing every time after each bottle/can
The Red Cross lottery have per year; 12 prices at 1.000.000 NOK, 300 at 10.000 NOK, 5000 at 1000 NOK and then a lot of 100 and 50 NOK prices.
I believe most if not all bottles sold in stores these days have the "pant" marker with the amount on it. Also more and more wine bottles you buy at Vinmonopolet also have this now.
The value depends on the size. 0.5L or less is 2 NOK and the bigger ones give you 3 NOK.
I believe this is the only time the sticker price differ from the actual price at the checkout. The "pant" value is added on top.
a typical swede.. .Automated recycling machines are everywhere in europe, for Platic, Metal & Glass bottles in many larger stores, in Sweden: in smaller stors like 7eleven, or Prssbyrån...usually not.. i guess the same apply for Norway and most Europe...
Norway doing greate in recycling.. all thumbs upp
someone from Norway fill in the blanks please...
7:20 I think all of Scandinavia does it and china does it too, just that they can also get train tickets from a machine at the train station.
10:6 and it can help the poor and kids make some money
Finnish here. When i take my bottles back, i usually have two big trashbags and get around 20-40€. Note, i already paid for them when i bought them but i get the deposit back when i return them. Lately though i have been giving them to a mate who is often broke at the end of the month, so it is a win-win: i get rid of them with no effort, he gets some money. That only happens couple of times a year but since we also have free storage because of the requirement of having bomb shelters in every apartment building... it is no problem storing them.
In 1984, a deposit was introduced on aluminum cans in Sweden, ten years later a deposit was introduced on PET bottles. Since then, 39 billion cans and PET bottles have been pledged. (2019).
But before 1984 we had it on glasbottles. When I was a kid in the 70's we ran around looking for bottles. Got money for them and bought candy for it. 😊
I have not watched the full video yet maybe it gets explained, but same as here in sweden and I guess most of EU? YOU pay the "pant" when you buy a bottle of soda etc. And you get that money back when you recycle in the machine. I think it's important to say it twice, that Someone "payed" the money you get from the bottles, usually we don't really care about that extra 1 or 2 SEK that it cost to get the drink, but at the same time it's considered rude to just take a bottle if its empty if the one that bought the bottle don't throw it away.
Last time I recyled bottles or pantet as we say in Norwegian, I got 25 kroner. Actually you can have it. 🇳🇴
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We have similar machines in Finland. You can take money and use it in the grocery store or you can donate your money to a charity. We don't have lottery, just donations for charities.
In Michigan we had the bottle deposit with those type of machines. In Florida where we live we do not even have the option to recycle. :(
The max price from the red cross lottery is 93 700$. Im just going to use loose numbers to make it easy. But lets say a bottle of soda cost 10$ and you get 1$ for recycling. Then you pay a total of 11$ when buying the bottle. And you get the one dollar back when you recycle. Just to add some difference. Lets say small bottles and cans are worth 50 cents. And the big ones are worth a dollar. Im only pulling numbers out of the air tho to explain this. So don't expect a dollar for each bottle.
Same system in Sweden. I'm half swedish and norwegian. But in sweden we are MORE of this recycling thing... We almost always have to do... RE-cyckling from our norwegian family, when we had dinner and so on! höhö...
Whatever the machine pays for each bottle is what we paid extra for the bottles when we bought them to begin with (deposit). So you're just getting your money back, unless of course you do as this guy and return someone elses bottles that you didn't bought. Obviously the trash collecting thing is not that easy, he planted those bottles in the trash for the video because it wouldn't be that easy to find bottles that were thrown in the trash like that in Norway. The lottery is run by the Red Cross on those machines. Obviosly not all machines has this lottery, some just give you the deposit back.
Ever since I started drinking beer in the mid-80's, you already had to pay a small extra amount of money for that bottle. If you turned it back in physically, you got that money back. These days you can do the same in an automated machine, but instead of only getting a receipt for your actual money back, you can gamble on joining a lottery with an immediate answer about whether you won a million NOK (or less) or not. I tend to reclaim the money for all but one bag of bottles, and let the lottery cheat me out of the last bag's worth... ;P
Hi Tyler. Always fun to see you react to our videos :) Haven't seen you respond to comments yet, but I'll give it a shot. The style you present is cool. But tech vise, how do you setup your studio as we want to achieve the same. Camtasia? Best Mads from yourway2norway 😊
When i was a kid here in Finland this was my main income you would be surprised how much money you can actually make from returning bottles.
When my friends and I went to the beach as kids, we would go around and pick up the bottles people left behind, walk up to the kiosk to recycle them and buy candy for the money, a pretty sweet deal :P
No way I’m putting my hand into one of those cans in central Oslo 😂
WOO !! I put in 25 NOK in plastuc bottles and won 2000 NOK at a machine like this at my local store :D
Another tip: our national day was two days ago. 17th may. I guess there will be some videos from it
Where do you live, Tyler? Do you shop in a supermarket? Does your state not have deposit bottles and cans? We do in New York. Most states around here do. Actually some of our recycling machines are imported from Norway. They're made there.
We have the same system in Denmark. Though you can choose to get the money yourself or you can push a button and donate to charity (we don't have the lottery part of it as Norway has).
Approximately 98% of bottles and cans get recycled in Norway because of this.
3 - 4 bottles = About 1 dollar (some ppl have earned a lot money by collecting and recycling bottles)
Its 4,2million dollars. If 10NoK Is 1 dollar.. havent checked in a while.. there was a homeless man that used to collect bottels from the waiting line for a fery. He collected alot he became a millioneere.. It goes in to the machine where it sorts it into plastic and cans. Then its crushed completly flat.👌🏼 and its dropped into big bins and are then collected at the store.
I panting alot bottles at the store great way of saving money
Tyler, he don't explain everything. When you putting the bottles in the machine your r getting your money back in that sense. because when you Purchaser the soda your are in reality paing a bit extra that is going back to the bottle is self so it has a value. and when you are returning the bootle (Panter) you are geeting the your own money.
I live in Sweden and we have the same thing. And we've had these type of machines since the early 80's. I remember when I was a little pre-schooler and I ran around to collect bottles so I could buy bubblegum and candy :P
Anyway.. It's amazing to me that America doesn't have these machines. Maybe it's time for America to start looking at other countries and learn some to improve their own country?
x Jasmine.
I have seen these same machines in new york
Now it's like a mafia fighting for your cans and bottles
Everyone that sell something in a bottle or can in Norway have to pay you back the "pant" if you return the empty one.
I have won a few times :) but like around 50kr-200kr X) still! it was money that I kinda needed at the time XD I had flax for sure!
Large bottles pay 30 cent, and small bottles and aluminum cans pays 20 cents when you recycle. Back in the day when we were using glass bottles they were industrially washed and reused on average 8 times. These days they are just recycled and the material repurposed to make other products.
Kids and people that need extra money often pick up cans and bottles laying about and return them for cash or goods. Very few actually rummage around garbage bins like the strange person in this video.
Every sunday, me and one of my best friends used to go to this house where a drunkard lived, and asked for his empty bottles😅 Used to get around 20-30 crowns, and used all the money buying Bugg🍬
i think normal price now for the bottlle is 3kr you pay when you buy.its consider unormal to not "pant#* your bottlers. if you get 2/3 kr for every bottle you collect. you can get a lot acully. if you dont to tro lotto insted of payout. yes you can winn one millinon doller kr- i think almost al Norwegians pant they botlles. font work with glass.
in the summer when wr drink in the park its a lots of "not Norwegians" going between the picnics and ask you to get your empty bottle. its kins of enoying if your not finish but, if you bottles empty you give it away, you dont need to trow them away.
and if you in the street you put you empty bottle some place that someone that collecting them can pic them easy up. so not in trashcan beside ;-) its a lot of not Norwegians picking up bottles in the summer. be kind
I live in Norway. My record was 300 norwegian kroner doing this. Big trash bags with bottles😄
This is a 40+ years invention in Denmark. And i still go down and get around 20 dollars to this day when i feel i have enough. Last time gave me 356 kroner. And they didnt count the glass bottles anymore so i lost about 80-90 kroner in glass bottles alone. So not quite 500 kroner but still a good haul. My best was me and a friend collecting 400 kroner in 1980. That was a shitload of money for 2 kids. But we have people that make a living out of collecting bottles. 2000 kroner a day can be made if you're serious about it. But all youre doing then is goung round parks and beaches asking and looking for bottles. Not a life really.. 😉
It's actually a Norwegian invention bu Tomra, but adopted to many countries since then. At first it was only glass bottles, but the first automatic machine came in 1972.
I do not think it could work in US. In the Nordic countries and most of Europe we pay a deposit for each bottle we buy, that we get i back in those kind of machines. It is the barcode that tlees the machine how mauch you should get paid back, and it differ betweens sort of bottels.
If you try this in US it will always be some companies that will not add a deposit, and therfore will their product be cheeper. And if you not add a fedeal law that make it manadory to add deposit they must have diffrent barcodes.... well; it can not be inplemented in a small scale.
We have had this system in Sweden since 1984, and I assume Norway also did it around that time.
for 1,5 liter bottles you get 2,5 kroner back.
0,5 liter you get 1 krone back.
It's a good system :)
It is 2 NOK for 0.5L and below and 3 NOK above 0.5L
They finally increased it a bit in 2018 after being the same for like 20 years or something.
@@Gazer75 Right my bad, it's been a while since i went and recycled :D
I recycled 1 bottle once and won 100 NOK. i won two times in a row. The lowest you can win is 50 NOK
almost all types of bottles is included in the pant system.
you can win max NOK 42 million in Red Cross lotteries on those bottle machines
It’s more like $100 000 since 1 usd = ca 10 nok
You can also win 100.000 in recycling milk cartons
And every time you dont win. The money goes to health organizations. So they can Get new ambulances and support people who help others
do the same vidoe about sweden :D
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Actually we recycle so much of our plastic that banning plastic bags in the store and replace it with paper bags would have a negative environmental imprint for Norway. Still, it seems like that’s where we’re heading due to EU regulations.
I scrap so many cans and bottles it’s not even funny. People throw them everywhere and it’s super easy to cash em in.
I have rummaged through trash cans before and found returnables.
I remember seing homeless people colecting bottle to earn some money, great way to be able to buy some food. (or the spent on a licour)
Sad that you didn't watch the Alt for Norge clip where they try out this
Imagine after any festival, cleaning up for bottles and cans, how much money you can get 😉👍