Bottle can can deposits

[Jeff]

I am sure they can be recycled but they are not the heavy glass returnables they used to have.

I think they are different. If you dropped one of those old coke bottles there was a good chance it was going to bounce around on the ground. If I drop my Coors Light bottle, It's history.

 

[Pete]

I am surprised at the results so far.

 

[Sharon]

I think it would be just as fine to allow free enterprise to come in and solve the problem. The redemption centers has semi loads of sorted plastic and aluminum cans taken from them every week.

Don't you think if it was profitable that someone would be doing it already? You have to have a buyer to take it off the collectors hands. When you have no buyer it goes in a landfill.

 

[Pete]

Don't you think if it was profitable that someone would be doing it already? You have to have a buyer to take it off the collectors hands. When you have no buyer it goes in a landfill.

In Maine it is a mandatory state imposed deposit administered by them. Of course I am probably wrong but with the increasing cost of refuse collectiona nd disposal I would think the program would pay for itself or at least break even while creating a few jobs.

 

[Cowgirl]

Don't you think if it was profitable that someone would be doing it already? You have to have a buyer to take it off the collectors hands. When you have no buyer it goes in a landfill.

Your av....

 

[Sharon]

In Maine it is a mandatory state imposed deposit administered by them. Of course I am probably wrong but with the increasing cost of refuse collectiona nd disposal I would think the program would pay for itself or at least break even while creating a few jobs.

Who needs another tax? Let the companies who use them absorb the cost and pass it on to the consumer. Then we can choose to buy or not.

Your av....

 

[puggymom]

When I lived in NY, they had that plan. It can work well, but can also be a pain in the butt. You have to clean all the bottles and store them prior to bringing them to a redemption center. In some cases, like plastic bottles, the redemption center is a crushing machine at the grocery store. You always get the person(s) who don't clean the bottles and it gets everywhere, stinks, and attracts bugs.

That said, yes, I would support it and use it. However, until they make recycling mandatory, I think very few would participate.

Yep, it was like that when we lived in CT. I hated the sticky machines...ick!

 

[Pete]

Who needs another tax? Let the companies who use them absorb the cost and pass it on to the consumer. Then we can choose to buy or not.

You can choose to buy or not anyway. it is not exactly a "tax" unless you throw it in the trash. It is more of an incentive to lessen the tonnage of completely recyclable material going into landfills.

 

[Lugnut]

In Maine it is a mandatory state imposed deposit administered by them. Of course I am probably wrong but with the increasing cost of refuse collectiona nd disposal I would think the program would pay for itself or at least break even while creating a few jobs.

I don't know very much about recycling but I remember a couple years back when people were arguing that it wasn't financially feasible as an independent (non government subsidized) business. Has that changed for any of the major efforts? ie. aluminum, glass, paper, steel...

 

[jp2854]

when i lived in ny they had a place you took the cans and bottles put them in a machine and it gave you a slip to take into the store and they either gave you your money or they took it off your grocerys at the end (whatever money you got in cans and bottles) and we weren't required to rinse them or any of that just bring them in and put them separated out so it didn't take so long to put them through as there was always a line when we went.

 

[Sharon]

You can choose to buy or not anyway. it is not exactly a "tax" unless you throw it in the trash. It is more of an incentive to lessen the tonnage of completely recyclable material going into landfills.

Again, you have to have a buyer. No buyer...it goes in the landfill.

 

[Pete]

I don't know very much about recycling but I remember a couple years back when people were arguing that it wasn't financially feasible as an independent (non government subsidized) business. Has that changed for any of the major efforts? ie. aluminum, glass, paper, steel...

I am not sure, I recall watching an episode of "Penn and Teller's BULLSHIAT" and they said that recycling was not. Now that being said I would have to wonder why. It would seem to me that a large part of the cost of recycling is the labor/machinery needed to sort the material by class/type. the rest is just grinding and melting. If that is the case the deposit program would benefit because between the consumer and the collector everything would be pre-sorted removing that part of the expense.

 

[HeavyChevy75]

In Mass they did it also. All the grocery stores had the machines that you could do it. You could also go to a redemption center and cash it in. I would collect cans from my dad's machine shop and get 15-20.00 for a little bit of work.

My church did that for a fundraiser collecting cans or bottles. I brought in 20 bags from my dad's machine shop. All the machinist's just put the cans and bottles in a bag for me.

Nobody really complained about it because it was just the way it was. I would be likely to keep my cans and bottles for redemption of Maryland did it.

 

[Tomcat]

We recycle all of our 10oz. and 12oz. cans. When we inquired about recycling bottles Waste Management told us we would have to seperate brown bottles, clear bottles and green bottles. No big problem with that? Then they wanted us to pay for 3 more dumpsters, but we wouldn't get anything from the recycling. Where's the incentive???

 

[Pete]

Again, you have to have a buyer. No buyer...it goes in the landfill.

Here is a list of recyclers.

Maryland Recycles

 

[GWguy]

I can only imagine how many cans go in the garbage from bars where people mostly drink 10 oz'rs and all the red bull cans as well.

We had a voluntary recycle program here at our office. It was well used, but the people responsible got tired of hauling the bags out. It eventually went away.

Most of my co-workers just throw out recycles, but I take them home and add them to my weekly recycle run to the transfer station.

 

[GWguy]

I am not sure, I recall watching an episode of "Penn and Teller's BULLSHIAT" and they said that recycling was not. Now that being said I would have to wonder why. It would seem to me that a large part of the cost of recycling is the labor/machinery needed to sort the material by class/type. the rest is just grinding and melting. If that is the case the deposit program would benefit because between the consumer and the collector everything would be pre-sorted removing that part of the expense.

That's why the recycle at the transfer station is a joke. It used to be separated into paper and glass/metal. Now it's a combined bin for anything. People just use it to toss their trash in now and I'm sure it doesn't get properly recycled.

 

[Pete]

That's why the recycle at the transfer station is a joke. It used to be separated into paper and glass/metal. Now it's a combined bin for anything. People just use it to toss their trash in now and I'm sure it doesn't get properly recycled.

They probably just dump it in the truck going to the landfill when no one is looking.

 

[Sharon]

Here is a list of recyclers.

Maryland Recycles

And...?

 

[Chainsaw Slayer]

I am against it. I do not and will not recycle. So this would basically be an additional 5 cent tax on every can of beer I buy.