• I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      It’s a quarter for boxed wine!! Really though, this title is misleading. It should say “California Redemption Value deposit charge to be added to liquor and juice containers starting in January.”

      They add it to the price of the product at checkout, it’s a “deposit” that you are able to get back if you want to save up your containers and drive them to the recycling center.

      I see this mostly benefiting people who make a few dollars a day digging through public (and not so public) trash receptacles looking for things with CRV to turn in.

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        11 months ago

        It pisses me off that we have to pay any fee at all when we aren’t the ones who choose a product’s packaging.

        Companies should be paying the whole thing … including recycling costs. Then maybe they’d start packaging responsibly.

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          11 months ago

          For things that can’t be recycled, I would agree. But if it can be, then it still needs to be brought to a recycling facility to make that happen. Without this incentive, a lot more of it will end up in landfills.