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Re:As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling by damoe on Saturday March 16, 2019 @06:42PM (#19410855)
I was a kid in Oregon in the early 70's when they implemented a bottle deposit. It was $.05 then which would be $.30 today. To bad they haven't increased the deposit amount.

You also could return older, non-deposit containers at the beginning. This spurred me and my friends to clean every roadside and field within reach of our bikes. For a month we made more money than we had known in our entire lives. Then it was over and a valuable lesson was learned.

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Re:As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling by ngold on Saturday March 16, 2019 @08:04PM (#19411259)
It's a dime now, with 90% + recycling rates. But 30 cents is huge.
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Re:As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling by skriticos2 on Saturday March 16, 2019 @10:05PM (#19411745)
It's about 30 USD ct in Germany (25 euro ct) for plastic bottles (that you have to pay up front). Very few bottles are not returned around here.
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