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Fraser
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Location: Kauniainen, Finland
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 Posted: Fri 20th Jun 10:15pm Post subject: How To Make Less Glass On The Roads & Streets |
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Having recently moved to Finland I noticed that there isn't as much broken glass at the side of the road. They recycle an amazing 90% of their glass here. The machines they have in the supermarkets pay 15c for a coke can or plastic bottle and 4.20c for a 1.5 litre glass bottle. The only thing that has this incentive is the ABC crates that you get your talls in. That is like a family heirloom when you get a crate as its expensive if you break a bottle at a party.
Although its in Finnish hopefully its undertandable what you do. The crate bit at the bottom recycles the 1.5 litre plastic coke bottles.
www.solotop.fi/pdf/Pullon-%20ja%20tolkinpalautus.pdf
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Nick_K
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Gives homeless people a useful source of income to buy turps and glue with too.
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mtbers
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The main reason for all the glass in the road is the dumb asses who get hammered on days like thursday and friday and do stupid tihs that night that they cant remember. an example, the other weekend one of our flat mates had her 20th and had about 6 friends over, the draters got so tihs faced that they smashed about 30 bottles on the road and foot path out side our house, they didn't even clean any of it up and the majority of it is still sitting out there in razor sharp pieces. when we asked the flat mate she blatantly lied and said they didnt do it, although none of them could remember that night. I got them back by stealing all their left over alcohol and dropping a few laxative pills in the rest, they don't seem to come round here any more. Shes a uni student and the rest are f@#kwits who do nothing but get stoned and drink ssip during the weekends. really shows you the future this country has when people cant even handle their alcohol.
Also is it just me or is it places like Palmerston North, Christchurch and Dunedin that seem to have quite a considerable amount of glass on the roads, hmmm i wonder why that is, oh i know, their all student cities.
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Fraser
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Finland has its share of drunk teenagers.
I just thought it could be a nice solution to a problem faced by cyclists. The environmental issue is good but not the main reason really. They could be paying for the cans and dumping them in the sea for all I care.
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pushbikerider
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| mtbers wrote: |
Also is it just me or is it places like Palmerston North, Christchurch and Dunedin that seem to have quite a considerable amount of glass on the roads, hmmm i wonder why that is, oh i know, their all student cities. |
In the case of Palmy at least, its seems to be more caused by the boy racer types than the scarfies, the number of times I've seen a boy racer car full of drunken mongs (excpet for the driver these dys) often will just throw tihs on the road (RTD bottles, Mc'ds wrappers all sorts of tihs)
I'm surprised though at how little glass there is on the streets of rotorua 
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