[dijit]

"Pant"[0] is very common across most of northern europe- what you tend to find is that people will pilfer public trash cans to get bottles and cans to dispense, in Sweden where I live it's 1kr (or 10c in USD) for a can or small bottle, and large bottles being 2kr.

Not everyone is so fortunate to have gainful employment, especially not as gainful as the normal user of this site.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container-deposit_legislation

[stevekemp]

Same here in Helsinki, Finland. People will root around rubbish-bins, and collect the cans/bottles. (Especially in parks, and next to tram-stops. Basically places where people are likely to have had a drink and not recycled themselves.)

[dd36]

If it’s a deposit, then pilfering trash cans isn’t really a problem.