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New York has a 5 cent per container deposit. An advocacy group wants it increased to 10 cents and to include wine bottles and non-carbonated drinks like Gatorade. The law was updated in 2009 to include water bottles.
The argument is that beverage container redemptions have stagnated at 64% but states with the 10 cent deposit have higher redemption rates.
What do you all think? We recycle all of our bottles and cans but we don’t bring them back to the supermarket we put them in the recycling bin for collection by the sanitation department. I mentioned this at a family BBQ and my aunt was aghast. I don’t think it’s worth my time and anyway, the point is to get people to recycle, which I am doing. The state gets to keep the 5 cents per can or bottle. What is the problem? I think they might lose revenue if they raised the price.
New York has a 5 cent per container deposit. An advocacy group wants it increased to 10 cents and to include wine bottles and non-carbonated drinks like Gatorade. The law was updated in 2009 to include water bottles.
The argument is that beverage container redemptions have stagnated at 64% but states with the 10 cent deposit have higher redemption rates.
What do you all think? We recycle all of our bottles and cans but we don’t bring them back to the supermarket we put them in the recycling bin for collection by the sanitation department. I mentioned this at a family BBQ and my aunt was aghast. I don’t think it’s worth my time and anyway, the point is to get people to recycle, which I am doing. The state gets to keep the 5 cents per can or bottle. What is the problem? I think they might lose revenue if they raised the price.
I am more interesting in learning if bottle redemption results in a higher or lower rate of bottles/cans/etc actually being recycled than just putting it out for with trash pickup in separate container.
And I don't think the state collects the deposit all of the deposit. The stores get to keep 20%.
My husband was chatting with one of the guys that pick up the recycling and he told him that most of the plastic bottles and cans end up in the landfill and are not recycled. In my neighborhood there is an elderly man that comes around my block in the middle of the night that rattles all the bins and makes a racket at 3:00 am. He takes everyone on my block's bottles away and earns his beer money, lol.
We send them all to the recycle bin. Not worth my time waiting on line with the machines breaking down half the time. It just is not worth the $2.50. Raising it to 10 cents won’t help. Still not worth it.
We send them all to the recycle bin. Not worth my time waiting on line with the machines breaking down half the time. It just is not worth the $2.50. Raising it to 10 cents won’t help. Still not worth it.
Same here. And then half the time the machines don't take the bottles because that store doesn't sell that product..it's a miserable experience for the $100 a year or so my family would save. $200? Nah, probably still wouldn't do it.
It is kind of wild that it's still a 5 cent deposit, 50 years after it was first introduced in Oregon in 1971. 5 cents back then was the equivalent of about 35 cents today.
it's just another state money grab. They know most households just recycle and they get pocket the difference for whatever the new pet project of the day is. Also, spreading it to cover other containers is just a new grocery tax. Realistically, it should be gotten rid of all together as is the case in most other states. We live in a world with recycling collection for decades which was not the case when this started. This will also incentivize some people ripping apart trash and leaving a mess to blow around (beyond what already happens) - the opposite of the feel gooder part of the original idea.
It is kind of wild that it's still a 5 cent deposit, 50 years after it was first introduced in Oregon in 1971. 5 cents back then was the equivalent of about 35 cents today.
Back in the 1960's it was 2 cents, I agree it's crazy that it's only 5 cents over 50 years later especially with the proliferation of water bottles and other beverages. They need to increase it to a point where it changes behavior and these bottles don't end up in landfills. People complain about landfills, garbage trains but here we are trucking garbage to Ohio and South Carolina, how about we address the problem with a reasonable solution because our throw away society is doomed to failure.
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