about deposit bottles and cans - Page 2

 Seerialmom wrote:


Around here the homeless scrounge through the recycling containers and pick
cans and bottles up off the street.  There used to be a lot of water bottles
(no deposit until recently) lying in the gutter, but no more.  Healthy
exercise and what must be a reasonable return or they wouldn't do it, right?


More now -- you can actually make a profit!  Last time I got $137 -- I
should really clean up when the truck is full!

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SACRAMENTO – The New Year brings a greater cash incentive for Californians
to recommit to recycling and preserving the environment. January 1, 2007,
marked the first day of an increase in the cash refund consumers receive
when they take their empty California Refund Value bottles and cans to
recycling centers.

For the first six months of the year, the recycling refund will be larger
than the amount of CRV consumers pay at the checkout stand for most
beverages in aluminum, glass and plastic containers

Legislation signed into law by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger raised the
refund consumers receive from California recycling centers to a nickel for
containers less than 24 ounces and a dime for containers 24 ounces and
larger. For the next six months, the amount of CRV consumers pay at the
store will remain four cents on smaller containers and eight cents on larger
ones.
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Cheers,
Bev
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               Non illegitimi carborundum.

 
What states don't have deposit bottles or cans?

Most don't.
Only about ten or so do.

Don

 Wilson wrote:

i really doubt anyone said "left's make these return centers as nasty as
possible."

In your first line you say it's a dreadful chore, then later you say how
it's "often dismissed as too much trouble"

Sounds like the dregs of society, at least performing some small service
to the community, doing a job that others may not want to do themselves
(if everyone was taking care of their own, there'd be no cans for
homeless to pick up)