OK -- I am starting to get pretty pissed off about all the long lines at the grocery store for bottle/can deposit. At this point I am just throwing them in the curbside recycling bin. Why should I drive to the nearest store and wait for an hour in a line so I can get my $5.00 in deposit money. Do we even need bottle deposit anymore? I say do away with the Bottle Deposit or at least go to another system of by weight or something where I can weigh my bag of aluminum and get out. There has got to be a better way.
True, but those lines man... maybe I just live by a bunch of meth heads who knows. It's crazy -- people with their cans clogging up the machines. It's just not worth it to return them to the store.
That's a good idea actually. Maybe I will just put them in a bag and give them to some needy person by my work. Hey do you have any change? No but I do have this giant bag of cans!
When it costs me $1.50 each way to get to the grocery store and back, I'm only breaking even if I'm recycling 60 cans. Sure, I can combine it with a trip to actually get groceries anyway, but then I'm spending my time with the methheads and the sticky soda and beer residue in those can dumps. And my time is worth something to me in soft dollars. I determined a long time ago that I was only going to recycle my cans at the curb. -Pop
Bum walks up to Harpo (Marx) and says, "Do you have a dime so I can buy a cup of coffee?" Harpo reaches into his pocket and pulls out a steaming hot cup of coffee.
I'm serious. If you just bring it to the curb, every can that isn't turned in is an added .05$ tax on your soda or beer. It's another government making scheme. I understand people don't want to take the time to do it. I don't. Give them to the people who can put them to use. -Petey
I was too (kind of). There are a lot of needy people by my work who would probably like the cans. Also -- the .05 is actually kept by the bottle companies. $11 million a year in unreimbursed deposits in Oregon alone.
Bottle companies? Intersting. I wonder how they collect and payout on that. Seems like a lot of work. Why I assumed it was a gov. function. Regardless they need my nickels less than the guy at the curb. I live in NYC... so yes, at the curb. -Petey
The government taxes the bottles, they pass it on to the stores who then pass it on to the consumers. Consumers return to stores who return to the distributors -- so the distributors get the windfall.
I think the State of Oregon should go the other way. Increase the deposit to $0.25. It's been a nickel since the bottle bill was enacted. Also, put it on anything plastic or glass (a jug of milk or OJ) and don't restrict it by whether or not the store sells that brand. I hated having to go to Albertson's, Safeway and Freddies just because I bought their brand of soda.
