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Re:How Coca-Cola Undermines Plastic Recycling Efforts by ceejayoz on Sunday October 20, 2019 @02:05PM (#21305838)
> Bottle/can deposits predated curbside recycling, and vestigial regulations don't just disappear.

They're not necessarily vestigial. NY's been considering expanding bottle deposits to juice, energy drinks, coffee and tea sold in plastic or glass bottles (currently, it's mainly soda and water).

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Re:How Coca-Cola Undermines Plastic Recycling Efforts by mindslight on Sunday October 20, 2019 @02:23PM (#21305994)
If the amount will still be a nickel, so that it only applies to the poor and the mathematically challenged, then I'd still call that vestigial.
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