Swedes Turn Bottle Bank Into Arcade Game

[JMcEntegart]

Forget Finland and its legal right to internet, I want to live in Sweden where I can get all liquored up and then mosey on down to the arcade bottle bank to recycle my empties in the coolest way possible.

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[cryogenic]

Looks fun, I want to play too

 

[afrobacon]

Swedes get all the fun...

 

[cykro]

yeah, sweden rocks...
and unlimited 100mbps for 25$ a month is sweet

 

[warezme]

I'm sorry this looks kind of lame.

 

[urlsen]

and no it does not play crisis, so dont even ask

 

[velocityg4]

An interesting idea. But why not just have people put out their recycling container next to their trash? Do they not have garbage pickup in Sweden?

 

[cookoy]

kudos to the Swedes! Such good sports. Wonder if this thing will work over here, with all the sour grapes losers, that thing won't last an hour.

 

[Guest]

Check out the AXE MURDERER at 00:21 haha!

 

[r0x0r]

Do you guys in the US have something like a bottles for cash sheme? I live in South Australia and the government pays us 10c for each bottle we take to the recycling centre (you can put them with the weekly recycling of course, but you won't get money that way).

Just wondering if we're the only ones who do that.

 

[ssalim]

Very good idea! What do the points do...?

 

[oneeyed]

Next they'll be giving you points for every person you hit with their vehicles, GTA Mother F****!

 

[squall leonhart]

We have a deposit system for sodas in aluminum cans and bottles. But that is all. Other stuff where you haven't paid a deposit like wine, sauces, jams, and whatsoever that is being sold in a jar or bottle made of glas is supposed to be dropped in bottle tanks or at the local recycling center.

//Christoffer, Sweden

 

[anamaniac]

[citation][nom]urlsen[/nom]and no it does not play crisis, so dont even ask[/citation]
Give me a bottle bank that plays Crysis, and then I just might...

 

[scurvywombat]

[citation][nom]r0x0r[/nom]Do you guys in the US have something like a bottles for cash sheme? I live in South Australia and the government pays us 10c for each bottle we take to the recycling centre (you can put them with the weekly recycling of course, but you won't get money that way).Just wondering if we're the only ones who do that.[/citation]

It varies from state to state. I think 11 states have some sort of cash value for it, ranging from 5 to 10 cents. New York, Michigan, and California are the only ones I can name off the top of my head.

 

[Guest]

Funny!
Now one with pinball games or something!

 

[the_krasno]

It's fifty times more efficient in the number of recycled bottles and let's you play videogames for free. I wanna.

 

[steiner666]

the swedes are awesome with their inventions. rewarding ppl for doing things that are good is the best way to get them to do them, obviously. Kinda like integrating games with exercise, makes it not only beneficial but entertaining.

 

[lifelesspoet]

Put one of these outside a pub and then post the video, thats a video i wanna see.
Here in the us, I would have to save my bottles, haul them to the recycling center and hop they take them. If i fill up my trunk, then i might get enough to buy the gas it took me to get there.

 

[Pei-chen]

Or simply teach people to recycle like they did in Japan. No non-sense, just pure Japanese sensibility.

BTW, how close is the normal bottle bank to this Arcade? I think some people that used to dump at the regular place took it over to the arcade for the novelty.