There will be exemptions for legitimate uses of nitrous oxide, for example in medical or catering industries. The gas is commonly used as a painkiller and for producing whipped cream in cooking.

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    @RaivoKulli @TWeaK if someone hands you 10 cans, they’ve handed you 10 cans. How don’t you know?
    They don’t need tracking.

    (If a store hands you 100kg of cans, they’ve handed you 100kg. Audit would need you to weigh them and know their name, but little else.)

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      I’m sure shops will be happy to pay out of pocket for cans not purchased from them. You’d need some form of balancing in the system.

      Like I said, seems very simple if you don’t really think about it.

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        @RaivoKulli Why wouldn’t they be? If they sell a thousand cans they’ve paid a thousand deposits.
        If they return a thousand cans they get back their thousand deposits.

        The cans, as with R White’s lemonade bottles once upon a time, are fungible.

        They’ll need a tin of pennies.

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          I don’t think you get what I mean. Customer buys from store A and pays them the deposit and returns them to store B who gives the customer the deposit amount. Store A doesn’t care, they got the deposit, didn’t have to return it to the customer. Store B had to give the deposit amount to customer even though they didn’t get the original deposit amount. See how it might be a nuisance to store B? That’s why you need some organization for the system.

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          Might want to give it some thought what it took to actually run it. I grew up with bottle and can deposit system but it would be a disservice to not recognize what it took to get it running and what it takes to run it now.