Norway offered residents a chance to win a $1,000 prize for recycling; now 97% of all plastic bottles are returned
https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/recycling-lottery?utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=%F0%9F%97%9E%EF%B8%8F%20July%27s%20top%20good%20news%20stories%20-%2018490904&sh_kit=041e11d90d979d07cfce1f7c5a4ab5bffb7690cb8cc3bdb2432d1648d33586eb
Posted by eddytony96
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Except that this is not true…
Wtf
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.
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.
Lmao, no I don’t do lottery, I just get my pant back. I guess op doesn’t live in Norway to post such a title
I do the lottery and hope I don’t win because the money goes to Red Cross or some other organization. If I choose the pantelapp—to cash in the money—there’s a 50/50 chance I find the pantelapp in my pants when I come home.
How many people have won the million?
Last time I did the lottery I panted around150kr and didn’t win.
The woman after me panted 3 bottles and won. Don’t know how much.