Do you get money back from those 600 ml glass beer bottles ?

[FlorC]

These are heavy glass bottles from Singha , Leo and others.

I never seen people with empties giving them back at the supermarket.

So that is for a 600ml beer around 53 B , 10 B for the beer , 10 B for the glass to throw away ?

And the rest is tax , transport and profit ?

 

Thanks.

[Puccini]

Yes.

[pomchop]

i used to donate all my empties to a ma and pa store who said that they get a few baht and that a truck comes around every few weeks to pick them up....i would wait til i had several cases of empties and pull up to store and they would take them from car and wai  me and smile and act like it was a big deal.

[FritsSikkink]

16 minutes ago, pomchop said:

i used to donate all my empties to a ma and pa store who said that they get a few baht and that a truck comes around every few weeks to pick them up....i would wait til i had several cases of empties and pull up to store and they would take them from car and wai  me and smile and act like it was a big deal.

They collect: glass, carton, plastic, wood, iron .. Prices per kilo, get a couple of hundred thb if you have loads. 

[warrima]

As a rough guess i would say the contracted maids/cleaners at our condo spend 50% of their time on any given day picking through the bins and retrieving the bottles, cans and cardboard.  They stash these amongst the trees and overgrowth until they have enough to fill a truck - that they call in maybe once every few months. I've seen the driver hand over usually something like 1 to 2k. They get maybe 10 baht a box  of bottles, 10 baht per kg of cardboard etc. 

 

So the five maids each get maybe 200/300 baht extra a month - but spend half their paid working hours accruing it. 

[foreverlomsak]

In my village there at least 2 trucks come round collecting all sorts of recycling materials including bottles. They take them to one of many businesses that act as collection points. You can either take the bottles loose and get paid by the kilo (same for empty boxes) or take the empty bottles boxed, last time I checked they were paying 9 or 10 baht per box and 1 baht loose.

[foreverlomsak]

4 minutes ago, FritsSikkink said:

They collect: glass, carton, plastic, wood, iron .. Prices per kilo, get a couple of hundred thb if you have loads. 

Never seen wood collected, reckon if they did Thailand would be a sandy desert by now.

 

[FritsSikkink]

23 minutes ago, foreverlomsak said:

Never seen wood collected, reckon if they did Thailand would be a sandy desert by now.

 

My mother in law did it from old structures on her land.

[proton]

get more when 12 in the box, mrs hobby!

[Crossy]

Dunno about the beer bottles (I like cans**) but Madam definitely gets a few $$$ back on the naam-soda bottles she buys by the crate from the ice-man.

 

** Cans (and cardboard) of course get recycled by family members.

 

Family restaurant is still recycling the used cooking oil, there's a reason the exhaust from the local farmer's iron-buffalo smells of fried-fish

[CrunchWrapSupreme]

My wife has many uncles, but contrary to popular belief, none have ever come hitting me up for cash. All they've asked for are my empties. They know I have many as I like to drink. Sometimes I give them full ones too. ????

[herfiehandbag]

Keep the aluminium cans seperate, they are worth far more than the tin ones, or mixed loads.

 

Totally irrelevant, but for anyone who has visited any of the preserved steam railways in the south and west of England, many of the old Great Western Railway freight wagons on these railways were purchased and restored by an outfit called the "GWR 813 Preservation Fund", a small group of enthusiasts (fanatics?) Who raised much of the money by collecting and selling on aluminium drink cans!

[Liverpool Lou]

57 minutes ago, FritsSikkink said:

My mother in law did it from old structures on her land.

Good god....   Yeuk.

[FlorC]

So that is for recycling , not a sort of fixed deposit to turn them in so they get re-used by the beer company ?  Like in europe you turn them in , get your money back or a token that you can use at the checkout of the supermarket .

The place I stay at gives Singha water bottles and the empties go back and are re-used.

You can clearly see that on the bottles , they are not new.

If it is only to be recycled , what a waste and pretty expensive. Beer itself is already so expensive . In Aluminium cans even more expensive. Maybe switch to 1,5 liter plastic bottles like softdrinks .

[steven100]

2 hours ago, warrima said:

So the five maids each get maybe 200/300 baht extra a month - but spend half their paid working hours accruing it. 

does their boss know about these wasted hours?

[warrima]

2 minutes ago, steven100 said:

does their boss know about these wasted hours?

Juristic Management. They are bigger scammers than the hired help. The sole goal for them is to coin it in for a year and if they are really lucky - a second year.

[JustThisOnePostOnly]

So I must be some kind of hero in my building.

[GammaGlobulin]

5 hours ago, warrima said:

Juristic Management. They are bigger scammers than the hired help. The sole goal for them is to coin it in for a year and if they are really lucky - a second year.

Juristic Management?

Interesting term.

 

A Juristic Entity is clearly defined, but Juristic Management is difficult to google.

 

Always good to learn something new.

[Jaxxper]

We used to take ours to a guy that does recycling in our area. For the 1 Baht a bottle you get it's not really worth the effort, so we leave the full boxes of empty bottles out for the rubbish collection team, who I'm sure store and sell them on in bulk after a while, so they are recycled via that route.

[RocketDog]

I know it's time to call the yard guys to trim the hedges when I accumulate 5-6 Leo boxes full of empty bottles.

They do the hedges and take the bottles away with a smile.

[BoganInParasite]

We get a lot of recyclables because of the wife's homestay. Prior to COVID we would rock up to the local recycler about every two months and get 30-60 baht for the load. Then a couple of kilometers up the road the wife would blow it on fried banana. Then during COVID we saw the recycler was accumulating massively because for a time they could not transport it across provinces and down to Bangkok. No doubt their cash flow was suffering as well. So we started just giving it to them and have continued to do so. When they spot us backing in it is all hands on deck and the two folks I've come to understand are the husband and wife owners are all thankyous and wais. Not too many other places you can feel like a king for such a small amount. BTW, we still go get the fried banana.

[warrima]

8 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

but Juristic Management is difficult to google.

No it isn't. Type in Juristic Management and hit search. Here I've helped you:

 

shorturl.at/HORY7

[marcho]

The local guys that pickup from the bars in Bang Saray give 12 baht a box of Chang and 7 baht a kilo for cardboard. I stack them in the carport, then when i get 12 boxes, I give him a call and he calls by to pick up. You don't get much for plastic and clear or colored glass. 200 baht each pick up.

[BTB1977]

Have seen some cheap old Europeans gather their empty beer bottles at a local restaurant a few times.  After about 8 of them order 12 or more. Pay the bill. Off to their car for a plastic bag to take the empty bottles. I couldn't believe it. 

[KhunBENQ]

On 2/13/2023 at 5:38 PM, FlorC said:

So that is for recycling , not a sort of fixed deposit to turn them in so they get re-used by the beer company ?  Like in europe you turn them in , get your money back or a token that you can use at the checkout of the supermarket .

The place I stay at gives Singha water bottles and the empties go back and are re-used.

No, as you see in the thread it's not fixed deposit.

 

But there is complete different parallel system which we use for Singha drinking water (0.5l bottles) and Soda (0.4l bottles).

You buy a full crate of 24 bottles at beverage shops (not chain stores/supermarkets) in return for the empty crate and bottles.

Here a crate with 24 bottles of drinking water cost 60 Baht, with 24 bottles of Soda cost 145.

Soda way cheaper than the one way smaller bottles.

Many professionals (bars, restaurants) use this.

BUT: initially you have to pay a "deposit" for the crate (xx? Baht) and bottles (5 Baht per bottle).

Takes away all that pile up of plastic waste or boxes of glass bottles.

Of course the system is not useful for the single condo resident on 30th floor
Some shops provide delivery to the gate in their close vicinity.

 

Don't ask me if a shop would buy back the empty goods (doubt it).

[Speedhump]

On 2/13/2023 at 3:50 PM, warrima said:

As a rough guess i would say the contracted maids/cleaners at our condo spend 50% of their time on any given day picking through the bins and retrieving the bottles, cans and cardboard.  They stash these amongst the trees and overgrowth until they have enough to fill a truck - that they call in maybe once every few months. I've seen the driver hand over usually something like 1 to 2k. They get maybe 10 baht a box  of bottles, 10 baht per kg of cardboard etc. 

 

So the five maids each get maybe 200/300 baht extra a month - but spend half their paid working hours accruing it. 

A shame you don't have separate bins for trash and for recyclable glass/plastic. I organised it in my housing resort which is 95pct inhabited by farang couples or farang man/Thai wife who are  happy to comply in general. 

[geisha]

18 hours ago, Jaxxper said:

We used to take ours to a guy that does recycling in our area. For the 1 Baht a bottle you get it's not really worth the effort, so we leave the full boxes of empty bottles out for the rubbish collection team, who I'm sure store and sell them on in bulk after a while, so they are recycled via that route.

In Phuket I kept all my plastic bottles for the old man coming round every evening collecting. These few Baht mean a lot to these poor people. I’m quite sure we had a similar service in Jomtien from a family with a sidecar who’d go through  the bins, never left a mess. The OP says they’re not recycled, of course they all are in one way or another, same as in the west. I always give them a tip or something too, what a life they have ! 

[geisha]

On 2/13/2023 at 11:38 AM, FlorC said:

So that is for recycling , not a sort of fixed deposit to turn them in so they get re-used by the beer company ?  Like in europe you turn them in , get your money back or a token that you can use at the checkout of the supermarket .

The place I stay at gives Singha water bottles and the empties go back and are re-used.

You can clearly see that on the bottles , they are not new.

If it is only to be recycled , what a waste and pretty expensive. Beer itself is already so expensive . In Aluminium cans even more expensive. Maybe switch to 1,5 liter plastic bottles like softdrinks .

I would not drink out of a plastic bottle that has been used by some one else ! Ugh. Glass can be washed , sterilized and reused, not plastic! 

[findlay13]

11 hours ago, BTB1977 said:

Have seen some cheap old Europeans gather their empty beer bottles at a local restaurant a few times.  After about 8 of them order 12 or more. Pay the bill. Off to their car for a plastic bag to take the empty bottles. I couldn't believe it. 

Yep we leave our bottles cans etc out for a Thai bloke and his wife that come around with a honda wave and trailer.If I was down to collecting bottles for the refund I wouldn't continue to live here.

 

[simon43]

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As a rough guess i would say the contracted maids/cleaners at our condo spend 50% of their time on any given day picking through the bins and retrieving the bottles, cans and cardboard.

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Back around 2005, the maid in my condo building used to pick through my rubbish sacks looking for the pristine copies of hard-core porn magazines that I used to advertise in at the time.....  the UK publisher would send me copies every month to prove that they had published the advert that I paid for.

 

I think the maid got quite rich by reselling these mags! ????