A number of the states in the US have a bottle deposit, which sounds like the same idea.  Problem is, it is only 5 cents, where it has been for like forty years, so it is only worth collecting and trading in the bottles if your time is effectively value-less.  And it&#x27;s not universal, so we still get the crap thin plastic bottles, they just cost a nickel more in some places than others.<p>There was a Seinfeld episode involving Kramer collecting a busload of bottles in NY (with $.05 deposit) and driving them to Michigan, where there is a $.10 redemption value.