In Sweden, people going to the supermarket with their plastic bags full of cans and bottles is a common sight.
They insert them into large machines, secretly look around before ignoring the option of donating the money to charity, press the other button to collect a receipt and take it to the counter where it gets refunded.

Sweden recycled 84.9 percent of its aluminium cans and PET bottles via the pant system in 2016. That is, in other words, a total of 1.8 billion cans and bottles – or on average 177 per person in just one year.

That doesn't even include containers thrown out via the regular system for recycling refuse.

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