Norway offered residents a chance to win a $1,000 prize for recycling; now 97% of all plastic bottles are returned

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1. Except that this is not true…

2. Wtf

3. The Recycling Lottery (Pantelotteriet) is a lottery where empty bottles and cans recycled through a Reverse Vending Machine, may be converted into a stake in a national lottery. A ticket in the Recycling Lottery costs NOK 0,50 and participants may win anything from 50 to 1 million Norwegian kroner.

4. This is wrong on so many levels
   First the main driver of returns is the standard return rate per bottle, about 25 cent for you Americans. We know this is the main driver as it was the only reward for quite some time and most of the gain in the return statistics was completed before the introduction of the lottery.

   The prize is also not 1000 dollars its anything from 2.5 dollars too 100k.
   The main reason for the introduction of the lottery is too help the organisation that runs it, the red cross.

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