Drink bottles and cans are a dominant share of litter by volume
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Single-use beverage containers — plastic bottles, aluminium cans, glass bottles, and caps — are among the most-collected litter items worldwide and can exceed half of all litter by volume in some surveys, with outsized impact on marine and freshwater debris.
#00089Deposit return schemes (bottle bills) on beverage containers
Add a small refundable deposit to drink containers, repaid on return. The financial incentive drives return rates above 90% and is the best-evidenced single intervention for container litter, cutting it roughly 40–80% across many jurisdictions.