Depositing: helping to clean up the world

I started thinking about how people comb the streets and parties to grab cans and bottles...

Are they really collecting the cans to help keep the enviroment clean?  To reuse the materials?

Or are they just in it for the deposit money?

I am going to assume that most people are in it for the money. With today's economy, every nickel counts.

Well, what if we used this motivation of money...to put deposits on other things that would really help keep our environment clean?

As a smoker who has been struggling to quit for some time now, I started to think about all the cigarette butts I see on the ground in an average day.

The reality of the situation is that, they are everywhere. Just like cans.

There is usually specific spots with high volume too. People tend to smoke in the same areas, as smokers are creatures of habit, and all these cigarette butts end up in masses all over the ground.

Well, what if there was a deposit on cigarette butts?

They could be coated with some neat barcode, and have their own machine at stores!

Do you think smokers would be cleaner? Perhaps possibly pick up after themselves for the deposit money?

Or do you think they wouldn't care, and the regular can/bottle collectors would take over and start picking up cigarette butts too?

The possibilities for a cleaner world...starts with depositing.