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    From Nightfox@eric.oulashin@gmail.com to All on Fri Oct 1 21:20:30 2021
    The state where I live (Oregon) has had a beverage bottle/can deposit for a long time. It's supposed to encourage recycling. What happens is, the law in the state of Oregon requires that when buying any bottled beverages (including water, juice, soda, beer, etc.), a small price is added to each container, and when you drop off your containers to a recycling center, you get that money back. It used to be 5 cents per container, but several years ago they raised it to 10 cents.

    What I think is silly is that we've had curbside recycling for a long time now. It would be easier to just put the containers in our curbside recycling for the recyclers to come pick it up. We still could, but then we'd lose that money we paid per container. So they're adding an inconvenience for us to have to drop off the containers somewhere to get that money back.

    Does the place you live have any stupid laws like that?

    Nightfox
  • From Accession@46:1/701 to Nightfox on Sat Oct 2 07:43:17 2021
    What I think is silly is that we've had curbside recycling for a long
    time now. It would be easier to just put the containers in our curbside recycling for the recyclers to come pick it up. We still could, but
    then we'd lose that money we paid per container. So they're adding an inconvenience for us to have to drop off the containers somewhere to get that money back.

    Does the place you live have any stupid laws like that?

    I remember something in the lines of that, but it was quite awhile ago (10+ years probably). If they still do something like that now, it isn't advertised or anything. I do still see some soda bottle caps and cans say something in reference, but I think it specifically says in CA, OR, and maybe one or two other states.

    Regards,
    Nick

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