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Reply #15 on: September 25, 2008, 03:07:14 AM
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betwix 4 and 32p for a PET.


So you get rather more for a Large dog than a small bugie or mouse? :D
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Reply #16 on: September 25, 2008, 11:01:08 AM
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betwix 4 and 32p for a PET.


So you get rather more for a Large dog than a small bugie or mouse? :D


Yeah :)

Especially if the dog is called Polyethylene terephthalate ;)
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Reply #17 on: September 25, 2008, 18:52:07 PM
45p/KG for alu cans.

at 25g/can, thats 60KG for all 2400 cans from the £1000 (at £10 for 24 cans)

so youd make £27! :D
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Reply #18 on: September 25, 2008, 23:05:53 PM
Thatd pay for the taxi fair down to the hospital for the liver damage operation... ;)
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Reply #19 on: September 26, 2008, 10:10:38 AM
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But not in the UK ><

It would work, it would help reduce littering, but they dont implement it for what reason? Cost I guess. There was a local show/festival a month or two ago where all the drinks were served in paper cups, and you had to pay a deposit on them, like 10p or something. People either returned them, or didnt care about the 10p. But others were going around picking them up and making a tidy profit handing them in. The organisers didnt care as it was win-win, they either got 10p, or didnt have to pay for the expensive clean up afterwards.




sounds like the leeds festival.
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Reply #20 on: September 26, 2008, 10:35:26 AM
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But not in the UK ><

It would work, it would help reduce littering, but they dont implement it for what reason? Cost I guess. There was a local show/festival a month or two ago where all the drinks were served in paper cups, and you had to pay a deposit on them, like 10p or something. People either returned them, or didnt care about the 10p. But others were going around picking them up and making a tidy profit handing them in. The organisers didnt care as it was win-win, they either got 10p, or didnt have to pay for the expensive clean up afterwards.




A lot of metal festivals on the continent have done this for years and it really does make a difference. You pay a few Euro for a fairly decent, solid plastic mug and thats yours for the festival and it gets filled up at the bars. A lot of people bring their own horns to drink from instead, and that also cuts down on the litter. Since the bars dont have to provide cups they can cut their prices a little and the festival grounds are almost always free of litter, it usually works so well that there are very few on the ground to actually pick up at the end of the festival.
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Reply #21 on: September 26, 2008, 23:49:12 PM
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betwix 4 and 32p for a PET.


So you get rather more for a Large dog than a small bugie or mouse? :D


Yeah :)

Especially if the dog is called Polyethylene terephthalate ;)


I gotta change my brothers dogs name if I move there then :D
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Re:£1000
Reply #22 on: September 27, 2008, 09:55:55 AM
So if I have £1000 to invest, whats the best place to invest it in?
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Reply #23 on: September 27, 2008, 10:41:10 AM
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So if I have £1000 to invest, whats the best place to invest it in?


savings account.
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Reply #24 on: September 27, 2008, 11:06:56 AM
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So if I have £1000 to invest, whats the best place to invest it in?


me, Ill have a very nice holiday and send you a post card :D
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Reply #25 on: September 27, 2008, 11:15:24 AM
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So if I have £1000 to invest, whats the best place to invest it in?


me, Ill have a very nice holiday and send you a post card :D


Which I can recycle? and get £0.00.04p for it?

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Reply #26 on: September 27, 2008, 11:40:59 AM
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So if I have £1000 to invest, whats the best place to invest it in?


either an ISA for tax free interest (about 6% from april - april, so youd be looking at 3% now - about £30)

or the best bet is Premium Bonds, where everyones money is pooled & the interest is pooled & then its luck of the draw..
could win a million, could win squat.
Ive just bought £10k worth, as its only somwhere to put the money for a year. not worth the hassle for interest & saving accounts.

http://www.nsandi.com/products/pb/winnerlist.jsp

look down the list.. people have won £100k & £50k with just £1000-£2000 worth of bonds.
look at this guy :-
£50,000       138MR738549       £1,099       LB of Havering       £1000       Apr-08
& thats just last months draw

not a bad return huh?

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Reply #27 on: September 28, 2008, 01:09:30 AM
IIRC

The equivalent to interest payed out by premium bonds is about 4%, not initially big but still a hell of a lot better than the national lottery.

On top of that anything you win is tax free, and of course, you could win that £1 million.

You could then invest that in black gold and wait a few years, by which time it might be worth a trillion or two.

Then again you might get nuked by the US government for hoarding oil...
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