There will be exemptions for legitimate uses of nitrous oxide, for example in medical or catering industries. The gas is commonly used as a painkiller and for producing whipped cream in cooking.
There will be exemptions for legitimate uses of nitrous oxide, for example in medical or catering industries. The gas is commonly used as a painkiller and for producing whipped cream in cooking.
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And even better, also legalise drugs like weed which these are being used as a legal substitute for?
Nos isn’t a substitute for weed…
Neither is alcohol. But with freer access to cannabis in Canada fewer are drinking as much.
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It’s a lot of effort to built up such a deposit system
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The deposit is just a deposit, it doesn’t pay for anything. Are you sure you understand how the deposit in this case works? You pay for something and you get that back when you return the item.
Maybe you should look into something like the Finnish bottle deposit scheme. It’s great but those take quite some time and effort to set up and get running properly.
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They’ll have to wait with just taking the deposit money since for quite a long time you wouldn’t know if they’re returning it or not. And if it’s anything like other systems, you can return it to different place than the one you paid for, which requires moving money around and whatnot. And there’s the issue of getting them from the stores to be recycled and overall upkeep and governance of the system and so on.
The systems are a lot more complex than one might think at first.
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It sure is a thing that can be done, it’s just a lot of effort and possibly cost for what it might achieve
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@RaivoKulli @TWeaK if someone hands you 10 cans, they’ve handed you 10 cans. How don’t you know?
They don’t need tracking.
(If a store hands you 100kg of cans, they’ve handed you 100kg. Audit would need you to weigh them and know their name, but little else.)
I’m sure shops will be happy to pay out of pocket for cans not purchased from them. You’d need some form of balancing in the system.
Like I said, seems very simple if you don’t really think about it.
@RaivoKulli Why wouldn’t they be? If they sell a thousand cans they’ve paid a thousand deposits.
If they return a thousand cans they get back their thousand deposits.
The cans, as with R White’s lemonade bottles once upon a time, are fungible.
They’ll need a tin of pennies.
@RaivoKulli (I don’t need to think hard about it, I grew up with it running)