I’ve only been abroad one time, and there were little gecko/lizard things everywhere, climbing up walls and scurrying across roads, and nobody cared. I was constantly fascinated but to the locals they’re just kinda there.

Bonus question to anyone who visited the UK - was there anything that fascinated you but I’d be taking for granted?

Pic unrelated.

  • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    16 hours ago

    Honestly this needs to be more of things in the States. And the deposit cost needs to go up.

    If companies were forced to retake their garbage, we’d see far less pollution.

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      14 hours ago

      It’s not just that, they wash and reuse the bottles (without melting them down or anything)! Amazing stuff.

      They’re finally starting to put more stuff in them here opposed to plastic bottles, and I’m so glad for it.

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      11 hours ago

      In Finland the deposit for bottles of one litre or more have a deposit of 0,40 €.

      (And what many foreigners don’t understand is that we are not anti-recycling, so it’s not a problem that the deposit is inside the prices you see in the shop. So, if you see 1,59 € as the price of a bottle of lemonade, 1,59 € is what you pay. Many countries have a system where the deposit is added to the price so that people would think more negatively about it and they’d sell more of the bottles with the text “NO DEPOSIT!!” on them, so people coming from those countries are easily confused by not having to add anything to the prices in their heads.)