- Are you two ladies from Londen?

- Wales

- Okay, are you two whales from London?

I hear many (different) attempts at saying it the Turkish way.

And to be fair, neither Germany or Japan is the name of an animal.

Ah yes, that is an important distinction. Although for now, I’d say recycling instead of trashing is a big improvement. Especially if the trash ends up in nature.

Here is in Denmark they are at 100%, because that’s our law. As far as I know (as a consumer), it works just fine.

All soda bottles and cans can be returned in (almost?) any store that sells them. When we buy, a small deposit is added. When we return the container, we get the deposit back.

The deposit is adjusted every now and then to keep it small enough to not significantly affect customers buying power, but big enough that most people want the money back.