Re:Tips from Poland on Old-School Zero Waste (2019)
by aij on Sunday February 02, 2020 @11:22PM
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NY does the same.
But a $0.05 deposit for a can to be returned and melted down as scrap is quite different from a $1.50 deposit for a glass bottle to be returned where it can be sanitized and reused.
If small dairy farms can do the later, why can't Coca Cola? (And why can Coca Cola do it in South America?)
In Michigan any store that sells carbonated beverages is required to collect deposit and pay for returns. They mostly use customer fed machines that scan the bar-codes to check that they sell a given product.
Last year, legislation was proposed to end it, with the argument being that community recycling would benefit from the aluminum (I think it was a pretense).