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Posted by carol_from_ny (My Page) on Thu, Jun 12, 08 at 16:01
In my state of NY we have a deposit on carbonated drinks that come in cans,glass or plastic bottles. This includes beer. There's talk of increasing the span of the deposit to ALL drinks sold in plastic or can or glass.
The good thing is it keeps the containers from going to the landfill even in areas where the recycling is ify.
With so much talk about the environment I wonder why ALL 50 states have not adopted such a law? |
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I Have wondered that also
I use to live in Portland OR.
they had a deposit on all drink
bottle pop,beer,water etc.
Here in North carolina the
lest green state I know we do
not have a deposit on drink bottles. Blueangel |
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| Because the drink industry and the grocery industry opposes it. |
Here is a link that might be useful: The Unintended Consequences of Hyperhydration
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Alfie
Love the artical
But you know Oregon
is the greenest state of all. Blueangel |
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| Drat. Make that, "Because the drink industry and the grocery industry oppose it." I need an edit key! (Of course Oregon is green! It rains all the time :-).) |
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| If there were a big deposit on cans people would be less inclined to use them for other projects, which would be a small although real negative unintended consequence. |
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| Interesting....my family and I were just checking the tops of our coke cans the other day. We live in a non-deposit state (PA) and we were wondering what all of the deposit symbols meant. I take it you get 5c or whatever back for turning in the can? What's up with the picture of WV? Just wondering how that works. BTW we ARE able to (and DO!) sell our aluminum cans to the local scrap yard by the pound. |
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NYS charges 5 cent deposit for each can/ bottle of carbonated drink. When you return the cans or bottle to the store or to a recycling center you get your money back. If the cans/bottles are not returned the state ends up with the money.
Some states the deposit is a dime. ONLY cans with the deposit logo are accepted that the mark on the top of cans, on bottles it's on the side label and on bottle its etched on the bottle itself sometimes.
If we buy cans in PA without the NY deposit symbol on them they are not accepted at our redemption places but they can go into the recycling bins. If we buy cans or bottles in PA that have the symbol on the top without paying the deposit we can still turn them in to the redemption centers.
It's made a huge difference in our state on the number of cans and bottle you see along the road side. Many organizations collect the bottles and cans as fund raisers. |
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| Why doesn't the U.S. Congress make this a law. Better yet, why not ban all plastic bottles and aluminum cans. A twenty ounce bottle requires 5 ounces of oil to make it. Think how many barrels of oil we could save. A 40 gallon barrel of oil only makes 1000 twenty oz. bottles. Once glass bottles are made they can be re-used over and over again simply by washing, sterilizing and re-filling. It would resolve much of the littering problems because people would pick up the bottles and refund them for deposit. When I was a kid we collected bottles and returned then for 3 cents deposit each. Make the deposit 25 cents and they will solve much of the oil problem and litter problem. |
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| tssmith when I was a kid there were none of the plastic soda bottles either, they were all in glass and the deposit was 8c which eventually went up to 15c. as a kid if you wanted to earn some money you could easily go knocking on doors asking if people had bottles they didnt want (everyone used to save them out the back somewhere), and you would haul them up to the local shops to make some easy cash - it was money for jam :). It really bothers me that we dont have a deposit on the plastic bottles here in oz, only one state does so why not the rest? we can put them out for recycling but I think a deposit system would recover a much larger amount. people are less likely to throw them away if they are worth something, even if that is just a few cents each. |
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| It saddens me that in 2008 that there are still places that don't have deposits on cans and bottles. Actually, it astounds me. I am 49 years old and I do not ever remember a time when they weren't returned. What do people with them? Throw them in the trash? |
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| Yes. (I look in the garbage at work, where there is a container for recycling aluminum cans just around the corner, and I see aluminum cans, and I just. can't. stand. it. Aluminum! People pay good money for aluminum! The other day, I brought home an aluminum can that somebody had left in the train; garbage AND littering, sigh.) |
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