"Ed Pawlowski" writes:
>
> There is money in those bins. The town loses when the aluminum goes into
> the pockets of the trash faries instead of the town coffers. I'm sure
> both sides make good arguments but I never thought enough about it to take
> sides.
>
>
In NY all aluminum beverage cans, plastic soda bottles, and glass beverage
bottles carry a 5¢ deposit. Folks can choose to save them and return them
to the stores themselves where they get the deposit money, or bring them to
a neighborhood recycling center where they don't get the deposit money...
many just drop the deposit containers off at the recycling machines at the
markets where anyone can take the time to pass them into the machines. The
deposit is a good thing, it's very rare to find our streets littered with
beverage containers anymore... and those that are tossed from car windows
get collected by the few vagrants who patrol road shoulders for deposit
bottles and other assorted recyleables (good for them). I think it's the
dumbest thing to have home owners place recycleables out at the curb, that
only invites garbage pickers. Deposit bottles is probably one of the most
worthwhile pieces of legislature enacted in the past century