Many California Retailers Flout Bottle, Can Recycling Law
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- If you paid a deposit for recycling bottles and cans, you're supposed to get your money back. It's part of California's 33-year-old bottle bill. But don't expect smooth sailing because many retailers are flouting the law. Andrea Nakano reports. (2-13-20)
It's almost as if you should stop voting for the politicians who cause this to happen.
I knoooooow! Revolutionary concept! Sheesh these people!🤦🏿♂️ Let em be!🤷🏿♂️
That law was passed 33 years ago, when America used to dump all its waste to China. Now that China has refused to take in any more, there is nowhere to dump. Recycling has always been a myth.
NO "almost" about it ! Do NOT vote for them & their taxes !
Fifthrider But that might actually make things better.
And they're all getting paid 😂
“It Goes in the dumpster” me: goes back to dumpster and continues to exchange for cash
Rafael now that's a Plan. 😀.
Smart move
It’s normally either in the back of the store or locked won’t be easy also mixed with trash
@@Viggggggr found the guy with aspergers
good luck with sneaking behind the store and jumping inside the trash compactor. 😅
I guarantee the Cal Recycle admins are still collecting a paycheck.
4:02 “It’s nothing more than a tax.”
This.
Chuck Taylor It’s amazing that all the world‘s problem can be fixed with MY money. 🙄
what a scam. One of the nations leading states in recycling and now they are backing out. The state should be responsible for the recycling just as the people of the state do
We haven't been recycling 4 over a decade. All of our trash and what you think your recycling was being sent to China until China started charging more and now it just goes to the landfill. Must be nice to live in California.
You are assuming they are leading the nation in recycling.
The stores should be responsible for the garbage they create the state doesn't create the garbage they do so they should pay and properly dispose of it
@@sixxgunz3774 Maybe because you don't clean your recyclables? China still takes BC recycling? Contaminated recycling takes a lot more energy and effort to recycle.
@@fashionlife5348 the store didint create the garbage, it's the customers business after they leave the cashier
Guy wants his nickelback,
Store: sends him to a nickelback concert.
Lmao
🤣
😂😂😂
"Gimme that bottle back…."
Never Again
Simple solution stop charging CRV.
Thatll stop loads of people from recycling and will cut some poor peoples income.
@@yeetandskeet Why recycle anyway when you cannot redeem your cans and bottles. Sounds counterintuitive to me.
Democrats: Break your legs to hand out free crutches.
It was a stupid idea to force people to pay the CRV in the first place, but I rather pay that small fee to keep our neighborhood clean of used cans and bottles.
Caiden coffman
And middle class too. Many middle class people recycle and money is tight with single income when paying all the bills.
California: we love helping the environment
Also California:
bongothaplant Hypocali (as in:she,the state of California,is a hypocrite)
I think you mean "we love taking our residents money"
Michigan makes it easy. Almost every store has machines for bottle returns. We have had a 10 cent deposit since 1976
@sdsteve1000 Detroit is a nice place city to live in, stop believing the media.
@sdsteve1000 well of course I lived 20 years in Florida I miss the sun but that's about it.
@sdsteve1000 San Diego and California is becoming it's own shit hole country!!! 🤣
@sdsteve1000 okay and I prefer Detroit to Miami and Orlando, so I am not sure what your point is.
Dang 10 cents just started in Oregon a couple of years ago. The bums just got a 50% raise.
*Him:* "It goes into the dumpster."
*Me:* "Looks like a steady source of income has just popped up."
Smart homeless people already cashing in on that, no young ones.
Except no place to take them
@@yourview1944 you missed the point
@@metalglasses07 that's probably why nobody wants to take the cans. They just keep getting cycled through.
They have the closed off compacting dumpsters.
Funny how the STATE makes the LAW then makes the retailer collect the materials and administrate! WHERE IS THE STATE RECYCLING CENTER!?!?! They are the ones charging the tax. They never expect to return the money.
The retailer has no issue taking the deposits, so they should have no issue giving it back. GREED
chipper442 the deposit doesn’t go to the retailer it goes to the state. Just like sales tax, the retailer collects it but doesn’t keep it
@Jay Cole No Taxation is NEVER theft, if it use it properly return to better the society. No tax, eventually it will become a 3rd world country like most Latin America, increase crimes, etc. and it's no Fun.
Jay Cole
Taxes aren’t theft you may not like them but they aren’t theft. Because of taxes we have public schools, social security, police and fire services, military, the roads you drive on and many other things not listed.
I would not want to live in a place where the police and firefighters demanded payment before they could help me in an emergency.
NightSociety
Sadly to many people have been brainwashed to say all taxes are bad without really thinking about what the money from taxes gives us as a country.
That Greg’s a great man,
“You charge me a nickel for a can, then I want my nickel back!”
Damn right Greg! ✊🏽
Fight the power
4:32 "I want my Nickelback"
Best part, am I right? Like damn, give this man some tickets pronto.
Look at this photograph...
Every time I hear them I want my nickel back.
Nobody wants nickelback
@@marvnuts Every time I do it makes me laugh.
Why didn't California do what every other state did that has these deposits, have can recycling machines installed in the retail stores.
Because we got greedy Zionist leaders controlling our gov, just like how shxtty New York is because of those type of people.
I think the lady said there were machines in the parking lots but they were closed down for some unknown reason.
Those are few and the do not take plastic or glass.
I can’t remember the last time I seen a machine.
They used to have automated machines, those were replaced by staffed centers and now they closed them down. So you have to go to regular recycling center (if your city has one) to get your money back or throw it in your recycling bin for free.
The guy just wants his "Nickleback" lol
I don't think he wants his Nickleback, they suck. Lol
j ram atleast it’s not creed lel
How pathetic can California government be that they can't handle Bottle returns? So ridiculous
They can. they would rather just keep our money.
I want my nickel back!
Does he mean the band or the 5 cents?
Ten Eleven 😂
Look at this photograph.
You'll get it back "Someday"
@@ryan3332a It's "look at this graaaph."
"Brother, can you spare a dime?"
"No, we don't do that here. Sorry."
somewhere: wow thats a stupid law...
california: hold my soybean latte.
Forcing retailers to pick up the slack is stupid. It literally saves California to have those recycle areas.
@@bobthedestroyer9207 California just wants the money. They don't care about the environment.
Stupid California, never amazes me how stupid this state is. Why I never ever visit anymore.
@@wannabecarguy The recycle companies are not getting what the government was supposed to pay. So they quit!
@@wannabecarguy I'll disagree. Not recycling costs them money in land fills. That and the state is a major liberal strong hold. I feel what you have hear is simply a system with poorly written rules.
They shouldn’t charge the deposit fee then. Or don’t sell beverages at all. Because we pay the fee no matter what.
@Millenial King that or a whole city full of trash
@Millenial King isnt that good? you are giving them a way to make money. were all humans trying to survive
We had dep. Bottles in 50s , 60s. It worked then.
California should ask how we’ve been doing it for decades in Michigan. Ten cents per bottle and done statewide seamlessly.
Aron James You would not believe how this one simple non-tax procedure cleaned up the roadsides. No more just chucking an empty out the window.
@M Harris You know what i noticed here in michigan is the bottle deposit is only applicable on carbonated drinks,i bought a 2 liter of hi c or something cannot remember and no deposit.
@@judycarlsen7707 no recycling fee in Nevada and no cans along the road. Toss it in the bin, and it gets picked up.
Aron James where in Canada are you? In Alberta there’s different values on varying sizing and/or container types.
The old Michigan bottle scheme....
Kramer and Newman immortalized it!!
There’s a reason people mocks California nowadays
They make money on the return fees collected when sold,then close the recycling facilities that pay those that returned them. Guess they need the money for something else?🤔
This is California we’re talking about... nothing else needs to be said.
Tyler Eckart; sixth gen. Californiaian. Like I didn’t watch.this commie shit slowly creep in. Had to leave or go into poverty. F**k Newsome!
@@oneolddog8809
I was born and raised in the L.A. area and I hate it more every year...hell, sometimes I hate it more every DAY!
Retirement is getting near and I can hardly wait to see California in my rearview mirror.
Although it's heartbreaking too because this is my HOME dammit!😠💔
This is a well made story. A scientific approach to sample local retailers, opportunity for comment from each retailer, input from the citizen and the state... I'm very impressed by the quality of journalism.
When I was a kid in the 1970s most every retailer had a collection of empty soda bottles at the front of the store waiting for the bottler to pick them up, when they did their deliveries, and take them back to the bottling factory to be cleaned, refilled, and return to the stores. Maybe the solution is the require the manufacturer to take returns.
William Trader yep, bc that’s how it’s SUPPOSEDLY to work.
The manufacturers have to be involved in the recycling got it to work.
Then Pepsi and Coke all went to plastic. That was the end of it.
Snapple went to plastic.
Small PLASTIC wine bottles.
I refuse to buy plastic bottle.
I agree completely with you! It still is this way in other parts of the world. It’s ridiculous that everything comes in plastic now with no way of recycling it. Reusing is a better solution.
It tastes better in glass too. Plastic is not really recyclable.
That’s the way they do it in Mexico too. We recycle all our aluminum and glass. Wish something’s never changed.
Thankfully we still have a Coke in glass and yes it's taste better
Why is it the retailers responsibility to shoulder the cost of managing a government recycling program? So the retailer takes 10 cents that goes to the government as tax. Then they have to pay out of pocket to customers that return bottles and they have to pay to dispose/recycle them plus pay for the manpower to process all this. The store is losing probably 50 cents on every bottle brought back. The government clearly can't afford to process the refunds so they put the burden on the retailers.
@Lee Birdie They should not have to be put in this position to begin with. The state collects the "deposit" from each bottle and does nothing useful with the money to help the program or retailers. The small mom and pop stores are the ones that get it worst but they are also who california politicians seem to loathe the most. I mean, they have to shoulder the burden and costs of this program and in exchange, criminals can walk into any store and steal anything they please so long as it is under 900 bucks and it is perfectly legal and you the retailers are stuck. Gotta love California.
Sounds like insanity to me.
@@leoblazer74 Not comparing the 2 countries, but in Mexico @ moms and pops shops including anything that isn't a big corporate markets they won't let you buy beverages unless you have an "embase" or container of the same beverage you are trying to buy. For example if you wanna buy a 12 pack you have to bring 12 empty bottles or they won't sell it to you. If the drink is small enough it's more than likely going to go in a plastic sandwich bag and consumed through a straw. Not that you cant pay the deposit, you can pay the deposit and next time come in bring the empty and you wont have to pay the deposit. You could make a good living running an recycling company in Mex, makes good money given that Mexico is a big Manufacturer from Cars to computers, to disks from Movies and Video games. Just food for thought... ✌
@@ernestcortes1392 I know how it works, I lived in Mexico for ,any years.
So what I got from this, tax payers are getting screwed by the government and by corporations.
Basically
Not sure if it flew over some people’s head but we live in a capitalist country. Why can’t the municipalities collecting directly from the drink manufacturers instead of retailers and customers. You guys are seeing customers getting screwed and all I see is the retailer getting double screwed. At the end of the day 5 cents a drink isn’t hurting anyone. The small supermarket is losing tons either $100/day or $300-800 a month for recycling. That amounts to 1-2 part time jobs.
Not the corporation but by the government ultimately
Nah just the government. The Californian government loves to mess things up, and pretend it makes the state a better place. All about "feeling good" instead of "doing good"
Geo Flo they need your money for all the illegals aliens they are inviting! And why not your paying
“I want my nickel back!” Never mind it goes in the dumpster.
Shara Adams
Hey miss you’re beautiful
That really isn't the consumers problem. The business took the money, they need to pay it back as required.
Easy Fix: every store should have the bottle return machines. Print reciept and bring to cashier. Your welcome problem solved.
(sarcasm/satire/whatever...point is im not serious) But when those machines wear out, theyll go to the dump and add more pollution and hurt the enviroment!
Easier fix would be to eliminate the 5 cent deposit so people put their bottles and cans out with their other recyclables.
Easier fix: stop taxing customers a recycling fee.
@@Classic_H_Radio they do this in japan. Why not in the usa?
Aldi does this in Germany. You feed the bottle in, the machine rotates and scans it... you get a receipt to refund when you check out. What could go wrong? Some bottles are worth more than others so many Germans print UPC stickers for the more expensive bottles to stick on cheaper bottles.
“I dont need the money”
Later on...
“Give me my nickel back!”
Instead of following the nickles and dimes paid back to individual people, follow the money back to where it's originally going. Someone or group of people are getting rich. Who pays their salaries?
Politicians are making daily deposits into their Cayman Island accounts. Those nickels and dimes sure add up! Luck them, we are getting so fucked over yet again.
You heard the man he wants his “nickelback”. 😁
"Look at this photograph
Every time I do it makes me laugh"
Just stop the policy
40+ Years in CA trust me this state will rip you off in every way possible.
California is another FAILED experiment in SOCIALISM. Why do people continue to elect these crooked Democrat politicians even after they have clearly destroyed the state is beyond me. WAKE UP
Some good reporting👍
3:14
1. Return your bottles to that guy, get cash
2. He throws them in the dumpster
3. Retrieve bottles from dumpster and cash them back in to him
4. Repeat and make $$$
Stonks 📈
In Oregon it’s happening as well no one wants to give your money back only take it .
Weird because I used to set out a large container for the can collectors to collect from instead of having them look through my recycling bin. The demand for cans to recycle has gone up to the point I need to be careful and set out the container when the elderly can collector comes by because kids now steal the container to take the cans to be recycled.
You do realize it is the government taking your money not the retailer. Every bottle they sell the 5 or 10 cent fee goes to the government as tax. When you return it the retailers probably have no way to get that money back from the government so if they issue you a refund they are paying you out of their pocket so the government never gives you your money back. Plus the retailer has to shoulder the cost of processing, storing, and transporting these bottles to a recycling center. The store loose tons of money to a poor government program.
But we have recycling kiosks all over the place. Almost every market has them out front.
Bottle drop now limits the amount of green bags your can drop off. My buddy is like, “if you can’t take it back, then I ain’t paying”! The system is fucked
My father taught me as a kid to throw my beer bottles out the truck window on the nicest lawns. That way it gets picked up.
How can Michigan do this for the past 30 years, yet CA can’t do so?
Drugs
I grew up in MI ppl actually made a living collecting and returning cans/bottles but it’s been 10c return there for as long as I can remember.
I run a crv and recycling center... Do you have any idea how disgusting some of the material that comes in for recycle is? And they're just pacing it up on the belts we put our food on? The last thing we should be doing, is having our food retailers take in crv... I have watched people dump their bags and the cockroaches scatter all over the place... We have post control come every 2 weeks but will never be rid of the cockroaches. I've even watched a guy bring in recyclables in in his grubhub bag... YUMMMMMYYYYYYYY
@David T it's not that easy at a recycle center... Could probably get away with it at the grocery stores though
Most people have no idea how highly regulated recycling is by the state... There's daily load limits, out of state plate restrictions, crv vs non crv differentiation, fines for not putting something we don't even pay for on your receipt.... Then there's the reporting headache... I can completely understand why some of these stores just throw it in the garbage
@David T bordering states are marked with crv even though it's not paid so the bottles to have to change their process... The biggest problem with the out of state plate $50 roll is that someone that rents a uhaul to bring in all their recyclables they've been saving for a year, they have to take EVERYTHING back with them if they have over $50 and are out the cost of rental for the day because of it... The real problem is that it's regulated by the state... Bureaucracy
Recycling is a scam.
The way it’s done certainly is and it’s a scam on the people
What happens when a bunch of politicians trying to “demonstrate” they “care” about the environment by having a law without a single clue about the practicality of it.
4:30 look at this photograph
What photograph?
@@DJHEK5 EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH
@@seanpatrick7605 😆
“Goes to the dump”... lemme go back there so I can sell them back to ya lol
Every supermarket I went into in Germany had a built-in recycling center in the lobby of the building.
MEDUSAvsSHOE Michigan does this with their bottle returns
New York has this too.
MA also has locations with reverse vending (recycling ) machines
State: "Be a good citizen and recycle, or just give us money"
Wow.... That shows how much they truly care about what matters
Has anyone started picking the crv recyclables out of the back of grocery stores and return them in the front for cash?
😆That's a million dollar idea🤑
With minimum wage going up it’s not being feasible for most people to collect them unless you raise the crv fee.
Lots of grocery stores now keep their dump bins enclosed by high chain link fences and locked gates.
Lol and “let’s do it like California” they say... give me a break. California would be on its way to being considered a third world country if the rest of the United States wasn’t there to try and help them clean up their mess.
I'm so tired of the incompetence of Gavin Newsom and the Democrats. This state is becoming more and more dysfunctional by the day. Can't wait to get out of this hell hole.
I hear you man... 😔
If you leave, dont vote the same trash in.
rollinout2012 let me come with you!!
We, the California State government can’t do it, but we’re going to make it illegal for your local grocery store not to! That’s some sound government logic right there.
Get the governor out
How’d he get elected in is the real question.
77kirkwood it’s worse there than CA!?
The thing that utterly baffles me about this whole ordeal is that noone has thought of making the beverage companies responsible for the bottles like they are here in Europe. If I buy a beer it clearly says on the label "bottle remains property of the brewery, please return the empty bottle to the store for a refund of the cost of the bottle" and the store just gives the empty bottles back to the delivery guy who brings them new full bottles.
Also stores are allowed to refuse to refund bottles from brands they do not sell themselves, as they might not have a contract with a wholesaler that will take them back.
@KPIX CBS SF Bay Area - The next news article needs to follow the CRV money!
Haha in Finland you take them to the store and put them into a machine yourself where they are scanned and crushed. Then take the receipt to the cashier when you leave. Works perfectly. It’s sad to see a store throwing away cans that should be recycled. Every lit bit helps.
Why didn't they say what happened to the stores that said no. Seems like they can just say no and nothing happens. They should get rid of that stupid tax anyway.
It's not a tax because you can technically get it back if you tried. We have a 10 cent deposit in Michigan and no one really complains about it the poor love it because they can make money from can on the side of the road. We also have return machines in every major grocery store.
@@zacharysquires2836 All those places that said no what happened?
Asians stores with the word “Lucky” 🙄
These people have been ripping people off for too long.
If I returned all my dads beer cans ,I would be living in Beverly Hills
🤦 Lol
🤦 Lol...Thanks Dad 😆
In Germany we have recycling and it works.
Almost every supermarket did have recycling.
It is an automated system which scan it and then you get your money back with a discount
Please send the state officials to Norway or Sweden to learn from them!
Oh yea and here in America we are constantly scared of global warming fake news, carbon footprint bullshit. Worst comes to worst the poles will melt and people will be able to live there in 300+ years. We have a horrible homeless problem. A horrible high jail inmate population problem. There is no help for some parts of America.
No send their asses to the North Pole away from everyone and have them fight for survival!
As a former Trader Joe's employee I can tell you why the retailers are not accepting back the cans and bottles. It costs much, much more than the $100 per day fine to take in, pay out, bundle then find a way to recycle the returns. They ended up at the dumpster on pick up day. In TJ's defense, their store model doesn't allow for the space to store up the returns and no space for a recycle center. The ultimate problem is with the state. Re-Planet was partially funded by the, but when wages went up, centers began to close pushing back on the retailers who had long since stopped accepting the returns.
This will make businesses raise up their prices. Cost of paying costumer, labor to transport the cans to recycle and the gas to transport it as well. The democrats love making everything complicated
Shut up punk
@@ZachBratland why are you so defensive ? Does this seem like a good policy to you
You ain't seen nothing yet. The global warming hoax is coming. Carbon tax on everything especially hamburger.
The last time I paid a CRV fee was when I bought some beverages over a year ago to acquire the bottles that I'm now endlessly reusing with my self-made carbonation rig. The filtered water that I use comes from a local bulk water store and I use reusable 5-gallon polycarbonate jugs to transport and store the water.
It's CA CRV TAX. Enjoy it.
It's not recycling fee. it's tax.
I use to take a empty 6 pack a bottle in the store in the 80s and use it to pay for some of the new 6 pack.what happen to that.
A couple of decades ago this was an issue in my state as well. It garnered so much attention in the statewide media that the state government finally stepped in and started cracking down on retailers who refused to accept can redemption. I see both sides of the argument but the point remains; if the can/bottle deposits are going to be charged then we should be able to get them back with no fuss.
I love watching California crumble!
P.S. dont come to our state and vote the same way!
in the dumpster is AWSOME!!!!!!! keep up the good work Cali
"I want my Nickelback!"
Not the band
the glass bottles pulverized into aggregate and the plastic bottles softened into tarmac to be mixed together into road surfacing material recycles 2/3 trash, paper-waste and aluminum waste can be reclaimed and used as ingredients in otherwise organic sourced fireworks material.
If there is almost nowhere to recycle, how come our recycle bins and trash cans in the city are being invaded in search of those very bottles?
The homeless were making money so they stopped that from happening
@@tamerajohnson7606 yea i mean why prevent the homeless from bettering their shitty day lets just keep them low and suffering
Wait is this a recent thing...because I do notice a significant drop in homeless trash diggers (which is a good thing next to my bedroom window)
There’s big industrial recycling companies who take them
@@andrewfreeman88 😂🤣
In Hawaii, the state pays recycling centers to redeem the bottles and cans. Customers get their $0.05 and the recycling center crushes the cans & bottles and sells them for raw materials. The state also pays around $0.07 per item returned. It is barely profitable, but it does work.
"Bless the New Founding Fathers, Bless be California a New State Reborn" - Gavin Newsom
I used to work at Sprouts Farmers Market. There are labeled recycling bins through the store right next to trash cans. Both the recycling and trash go into the dumpster
Ur STATE of California is a MESS...KEEP VOTING THE DEMS IN!
But at least they're tolerant right? Tolerance for being screwed.
Just report every store that isn't following the law.
But all those liberal Californians tell us how important the environment is! They are lying?!
How many actual operating junk yards are left in America. Most people (the more financially stable.) thought they were an eye sore and would rather see them developed into something nicer for the community. They were the actual recycling centers, a place full of old junk cars and anything else that was metal. This is nothing more than a sham absolutely brought together by our trustworthy politicians. I grew up around junk yards ( recycling centers ) I know as I have grown older there are less and less of this junk yard available. This shouldn’t be left to the store selling the products, the infrastructure required to recycle is to great for a Walgreens/ grocer to manage let alone finance. If people really took the time to think about it they would see the many holes in this idea and why it would end due to failure.
Thank you for sharing!
In Canada, the entity that ships the bottles in the store ships the empty bottles out --- using a truck that is mostly empty anyhow. These entities can afford to send them to a recycling center EFFICIENTLY.
Without it, stores with unwanted empties can redeem them in another store...
As someone from Michigan this is crazy, you can return them at grocery stores and gas stations but we also have 10 cent deposit
File class action lawsuits against any retailer that doesnt refund!
I go to the recycle center once a month and always get between $15-$25 a month in CRV return.
If I woke up tomorrow with my head sewn to the carpet, I wouldn't be more suprised than I am right now.
Repeal the CRV tax.
Finally someone brought this up. But too late I just moved to Texas, no CRV HERE
They’ll take the money but not follow the law
The law should be enforced to those who doesn't want to recycle
From Michigan, it’s fairly common to bring cans and bottles to the store. We operate a small business and take back what we sell, we are only able to take back a max of $100 from a customer.
For stores to recycle, it is as simply as easy and having them there for your beverage distributor to pick them up on their delivery. No empty pickup, no delivery accepted. Best if you put the returns in the spot designated for deliveries, so the requirement is to pick up the returns to make deliveries. A store not knowing where to return them is absolute BS. The problem is the stores are taking deliveries and not having a complete returnable container loop.
As a customer, I don't buy bottled anything if there is no place to return the empties. When suppliers are sent the message, with enough volume, they will listen.
I work in a hotel where I set up extra bins/trashcans for metals, plastics, compostables and landfill, as they had only one big one and the waste guys do have the facility to keep each separate upon collection, I was told we didn't have time for that, all the the bins were in a line right next to each other and all different colours, if you dont have time to recycle you should have your trading license revoked.
I am born and raised in California and we are so fucking backwards here. Unreal taxes, homeless crisis, high cost of living, lowest quality of life etc... It's a joke here
All stores sell soda cans and water bottles, they don't buy the empty cans and bottles back. You have to take your empty cans and bottles to the recycling center where they can buy them back, not return to where you bought them. There are many many recycling centers in every town.
and they wonder why residents are leaving their state in the droves
Grocery stores used to redeem all the glass bottles and aluminum cans. That’s where it went. I used to do that it’s wasn’t a health hazard because they had a system and now no one wants to do it.
I work in the grocery business, we were told we'd get extra hours to serve this purpose but we don't at my store. It's also horribly unhygienic to do recycling at grocery stores, at my location we don't have some set aside area out in the parking lot area, we do it out front, by our doors. Homeless and Residents alike, we get bags full of muck and junk- you have people who dump liquid from bottles out onto the sidewalk, or might try to empty their cans INTO A SHOPPING CARD. Some people want to fight employees about not taking detergent bottles or polices on hard alcohol bottles, dairy or 100% juice bottles. Our state should have funded better recycling infrastructure- and keep the unclean task away from your food sources. If you have noticed larger camps of homeless outside your grocery stores over the past year- the recycling opportunity might be a part of that.
So stop charging us CRV fee ? END ThE CRV FEE !
Here in the netherlands, we recycle bpttles in every supermarket. We have special machines you put plastic and glass bottles and beercrates in.
Economically, 5 cents is just not high enough. In the 80s, Michigan started with 10 cents per can, and the stores were taking cans back too. That would be 24 cents now so let’s call in a quarter. If an empty can was worth a quarter you can bet people will get their money back.
Sounds like they need to deduct .5c off of every can you buy, seeing how you can't get your deposit back without a whole lot of Stress.
It's NOT recycling that these places call it. It is "Deposit REFUND". Big difference. The "Recycling" is the after market. If you buy a "KEG" of beer, you return it for refund of deposit. If you rent a "Rug-Doctor", you return it and receive your "Deposit". They've found a way years ago knowing the confusion would let THEM keep the "Deposit".