Comments on: Deposits on Fizzy Pop Bottles

By: Paul B

Paul B — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 22:08:35 +0000

we sometimes lived on caravan sites and I used to collect the empty pop bottles people left along with the milk bottles in crates and take them back for the 10p deposit. In cleethorpes it was Citra (I think or cintra) and bellamys. excellent I sometimes used part of the money to buy a frys five centres bar.

I remember when the plastic bottles appeared in cleethorpes in the supermarket they also had the base on the bottom, also I cant remember if it was the glass ones or the plastic ones that had a polystyrene jacket.

In my opinion fizzy drinks always taste better from a glass bottle, also stuff like ketchup, heinz,ok and branston fruity sauce it is just not the same from plastic.
I remember when most chocolate was wrapped in foil too

By: Duane

Duane — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:46:06 +0000

Our grocery store (Big Bear in Ohio) had a place in the back with roller wheels that you’d set the 6 pack carton on and shove through a flap. I don’t recall whether we had a deposit on them or not, but I remember getting in trouble for sneaking an entire bottle of Coke for myself when I was 8 years old

By: Big Boo

Big Boo — Thu, 13 May 2010 15:33:49 +0000

I definitely remember Orangina being available for a while when I was a kid, in those funny shaped glass bottles that Miss Moppet describes above. It disappeared again soon after but I have noticed it for sale again recently too.

It was a nice drink, full of bits that you had to gently shake (given the drink was carbonated) to mix them all in. I think the ad slogan was something like “Shake the bottle, wake the drink”.

By: Miss Moppet

Miss Moppet — Wed, 12 May 2010 15:55:12 +0000

I don’t remember the recyclable fizzy drinks bottles, but my father is still getting his milk from the milkman, rinsing and returning, although my stepmother prefers to buy milk from the supermarket for exactly the reasons you mentioned.

Now I come to think of it, Orangina, which you could only buy abroad in the 80s, is now for sale in the UK…and still in the pear-shaped glass bottles, although I think it is sold in plastic bottles too. But I think it tastes better from the glass bottles, just like the Irn Bru.

By: Big Boo

Big Boo — Fri, 07 May 2010 19:06:09 +0000

That was a very enterprising scheme you had going there James. Shame they cottoned on to it.

That’s cool Marissa, I guess it’s not really free money, but it feels like it when you can get as much as that back. Well worth having.

As to Jo’s point about Irn Bru tasting better from glass bottles, I could swear the same thing is true about most soft drinks. Perhaps the plastic absorbs some of the sugar?

By: Jo

Jo — Thu, 06 May 2010 20:26:23 +0000

We got 20p a bottle here in Scotland Plus cold glass bottles of Irn Bru were reported to have more sugar (and tasted better too) that plastic bottles. Mmmm.

By: Marissa

Marissa — Mon, 03 May 2010 17:22:48 +0000

Here in California, we’re surcharged the “deposit” on recyclable drink bottles. For example, I pay 10 cents in addition to the price for my large bottle of water at the store, but I can go to the recycle center and get 10 cents back for every empty bottle I bring in.

I drink alot of water, so I take all my bottles every few weeks and always come home with 25-30 dollars – Cha ching!! Easy money baby! Why should I give it to my city’s trash/recycling pick-up? I already pay a huge tax bill for that service. Won’t give them an extra freebie.

By: James Mcconnell

James Mcconnell — Mon, 03 May 2010 14:55:46 +0000

Here in Scotland, Barr still does refunds on Irn Bru and other bottled pop.

When I was a kid, we used to steal the empties from the back yard of the local pub and then take them back in. We managed this for about 2 weeks, until they obviously cottoned on, and started locking the bottles up. Still, it was 2 weeks of extra sweets money!