May work if they have decent recycling machines. There used to be some of what they describe here at a local Tesco, problem was they were out of order so many times they removed them. I lost count of the times I had tried to put in plastic bottles to get told "Item unrecognised". It really became painful after you had stood there for 20 or more minutes and were placing in one item at a time to get informed half the time that it didn't recognise the item and you had to try again. And they were real slow.
For all they had 2 machines the number of people and items just lead to it's demise. Eventually people gave up and just left bags of plastic bottle etc around the machine. So they removed the recognition machines and had simple plastic bottle deposit "skips". These overfilled and were full and the smell was awful, so was the mess.
People tried but the system behind the idea was insufficent. It didn't fail owing to people not willing to recycle but to no one fulfilling the next step in the chain. The basic removal and recycling of the plastic bottles given up for recycling.
My fear or concern is that it is kind of half done and never actually accomplishes what the expected intention is. Along the idea that every town must or will have one, but 1 machine in a town of 20,000 means a long queue.
We do have a habit of thinking a recycling machine here or there and that will "fix" it all. Reality is 4 or 5 recycling machines in a town of 20,000 all managed, maintained and emptied at frequent intervals. Twice daily. Somewhere like Cambridge is likely to mean a minimum of say 50. Especially when the idea is to charge for the container so simply recycling them at the local centre means you lose out.
Germany and other parts of the continent have been doing it successfully, but they also plough the money and backup into it. Just cannot see the UK actually doing what is really required. Be honest, if the choice is 20 machines at £50,000 each for a reliable service or someone saying we might be able to get by with 6 machines and we can buy from Achme-Joke Recyclers at £22,000 each. Which way will governemt decide to go? And why would they care, the tax on the bottle has been collected, poor refund machinery means it is not then returned.
Poor view of ourselves I suppose but I don't think things will change overnight, and that is the apparent perception. Germans have a different concern about their country then we seem to have. I recycle all I can at a waste management place in the next town. Next town because I would actually guess that little I put in the recycling bin at the house is actually recycled, my local waste management centre I doubt really performs much recycling either. Go down and the standard anwser is thrown it in the non-recyclable skip.
Could make things worse. If you cannot recycle it and get back the cost, then is there any point in not throwing it out the car window and adding to the roadside trash.
A more fundimental attitude is required, and that will not be overnight, and I doubt a charge will greatly help, likely just annoy.