What to do with all those plastic bottles your water comes in? Billions are thrown away every day, and they're piling up. (See NYTimes Magazine article from 5/27/07) Merchants don't want to collect deposits when they're sold and give refunds when they take them back (dirty, messy, nuisance, etc.), so they just get tossed, hopefully into the recyclables, IF your municipality or county or state has recycling. But that costs too, and who's to pay? Well, we are, right? So how to handle it?
Here's an idea:
The merchants collect bottle deposit, 5¢ or 10¢ for each bottle sold, and pay the money to the state or county or city for the collection process. Then that entity pays for the recycling collections. Otherwise, our landfills get overfilled with non-digestible trash. Soon we'll be talking about filling up the Grand Canyon if we don't watch out.
Henry Francisco, Special to
The Port Whitman Times
1 comment:
If the customer does redeem the bottles, does s/he get the 10 cents back -- since the county won't be needing it for those particular bottles?
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