The state where I live (Oregon) has had a beverage bottle/can deposit for a long time. It's supposed to encourage recycling. What happens is, the law in the state of Oregon requires that when buying any bottled beverages (including water, juice, soda, beer, etc.), a small price is added to each container, and when you drop off your containers to a recycling center, you get that money back. It used to be 5 cents per container, but several years ago they raised it to 10 cents.

What I think is silly is that we've had curbside recycling for a long time now. It would be easier to just put the containers in our curbside recycling for the recyclers to come pick it up. We still could, but then we'd lose that money we paid per container. So they're adding an inconvenience for us to have to drop off the containers somewhere to get that money back.

Does the place you live have any stupid laws like that?

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is, the law in the state of Oregon requires that when buying any bottled beverages (including water, juice, soda, beer, etc.), a small price is added to each container, and when you drop off your containers to a recycling center, you get that money back. It used to be 5 cents per

So, California does that _even better_.

Because, not only is there the CRV, they've been closing the various places
you can bring the cans, so that it becomes harder and harder to actually get the deposit back.

So how it _actually_ works, is that you eat the cost, put the cans in recycling, and if you're in a populated area, people dig through your recycling, take the cans out, and bring those in for the CRV.

I tended to go with having a separate container for all the CRV things, so it was easy for the people to find.

I do much prefer the German method, with plastic bottle recycling (not that recycling plastic really _works_, unlike aluminium, but I digress), where
every store that sells something with a deposit, has to have a machine to take back the bottles and return the deposit.

So generally people are good about returning the items, and it's not too painful of a process.

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Re: Re: Beverage container deposits
By: Adept to Nightfox on Sun Oct 03 2021 12:21 am

So, California does that _even better_.

Because, not only is there the CRV, they've been closing the various places you can bring the cans, so that it becomes harder and harder to actually get the deposit back.

So how it _actually_ works, is that you eat the cost, put the cans in recycling, and if you're in a populated area, people dig through your recycling, take the cans out, and bring those in for the CRV.

That's quite frustrating.

I do much prefer the German method, with plastic bottle recycling (not that recycling plastic really _works_, unlike aluminium, but I digress), where every store that sells something with a deposit, has to have a machine to take back the bottles and return the deposit.

Many grocery stores in my area have machines to count beverage containers. I didn't know it was a German thing. Still, I think it's more convenient to just put your drink containers in your recycling. The system of having a deposit on drink containers makes it less convenient to recycle them.

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