"brooklyn1" > wrote in message
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> "Ed Pawlowski" writes:
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>> 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.
>>
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> 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


I agree. In the cause of limiting litter, I'd like to see a 5 cent tax on
every Styrofoam cup (cold and hot)... especially those huge "bucket-o-soda"
monstrosities. Use the revenue to fund more recycling research.

George L