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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon Feb 5, 2024, 02:58 PM Feb 2024

10 cents per bottle: Recycling companies have mixed views on proposal

OLYMPIA — In another effort to boost recycling in Washington, a group of state legislators is advocating for a bill that would create a new system for recycling bottles and cans.

House Bill 2144 would establish a deposit return system for plastic and glass bottles, as well as aluminum cans. Customers would pay a 10-cent bottle deposit, upon purchasing a bottled or canned beverage. Once the containers are empty, customers could bring them to drop-off locations at grocery stores and other retailers to receive a refund slip. For each bottle returned, customers would get 10 cents.

“I think there’s always some questions and concerns about putting glass in curbside recycling,” said Rep. Strom Peterson, D-Edmonds, a cosponsor of the legislation.

Residents in Peterson’s 21st Legislative District, encompassing neighborhoods in Edmonds, Everett, Lynnwood and Mukilteo, are a “strong environmental constituency,” he said. He believes people will feel relieved using a deposit return system, knowing their bottles are more likely to become bottles again.

https://www.heraldnet.com/news/10-cents-per-bottle-recycling-companies-have-mixed-views-on-proposal/

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10 cents per bottle: Recycling companies have mixed views on proposal (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2024 OP
Kind of like Aldi's. Give a quarter, get a cart. Give a cart, get a quarter. bucolic_frolic Feb 2024 #1
Worked great in MI when I lived there. RandySF Feb 2024 #2
I can't see this working outside King Pierce Snohomish counties RainCaster Feb 2024 #3

RainCaster

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3. I can't see this working outside King Pierce Snohomish counties
Mon Feb 5, 2024, 05:56 PM
Feb 2024

The waste disposal in my county (Kitsap) will fight this tooth and nail. They have such a long list of items they won't recycle already. I could never see them agreeing to pay people for their recyclables.
Then there is the issue of the eastern side of our state. Far too red to do this, just on principle.

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