Why is the bottle/can redemption only 5 cents? (income, store)
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Apparently this is the same amount it was 50 years ago .. Increasing it would go a long way in reducing litter and helping the environment. Any ideas on how to go about advocating for this change?
I hope you know that if they increase that 5 cents, that means consumers have to pay more, and that includes you.
And you'd get more back if you actually recycled the things like you're supposed to. This mentality shows the deposit is too small. It's not a tax, it's an attempt to get people to actually dispose of the bottles and cans properly instead of just throwing them all over.
The 5 cent is working just fine. Are you really seeing that much bottle litter?
5 cents is not working fine for me. I tried to do it, but the machines at the grocery store were all over crowded. It would have taken me 20+ minutes to redeem a few dollars worth of bottles/cans. If the redemption rate were higher it would be worth my time. Now it is not.
5 cents is not working fine for me. I tried to do it, but the machines at the grocery store were all over crowded. It would have taken me 20+ minutes to redeem a few dollars worth of bottles/cans. If the redemption rate were higher it would be worth my time. Now it is not.
So you want to overhaul a whole system that is working just so you can personally benefit financially?
Recycling efforts in the US are suffering, because China's recycling industry is requiring cleaner inputs, & rejecting anything that doesn't meet their new standards. There is also pressure on accepting aluminum cans - apparently the formulations aren't identical across the board, complicating bulk sales.
Glass recycling in the US seems to have as much an esthetic base (keeping trash off the roadsides, etc.) as an economic base. If the pressure on recycling plastics, cardboard, paper, steel cans & aluminum continues, deposits on glass containers may also go away.
Recycling efforts across the US are having to reexamine their viability - some programs are struggling, looking for ways to boost their flow's acceptability to China, or looking for other markets that might take their outflows. We (the US) probably need to establish (or reexamine) some startup recycling &/or energy production centers, to pull all that material in from the local/regional recycling centers, & produce something from it. Maybe with economies of scale we can generate more income from a wider intake of materials.
5 cents is not working fine for me. I tried to do it, but the machines at the grocery store were all over crowded. It would have taken me 20+ minutes to redeem a few dollars worth of bottles/cans. If the redemption rate were higher it would be worth my time. Now it is not.
You don’t have to use the grocery store machines. Go to any store that sells the same item and hand the bottles and cans to the clerk at the register. If it’s regular soda just go to the local Walgreens or CVS and they will redeem them. They have to accept them by law.
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