Spring Loaded

November

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5 cent deposit on water bottles goes into full effect in NY on Sunday. The deposit pretty much ensures that most of these idiotic plastic bottles won’t end up in landfills, as they do now. And it’s only an egregious and evil governmental financial overreach if you don’t bother to redeem your deposit.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 at 7:14 am by Matt Davies.
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5 Responses to “Spring Loaded”

Marinadog November 4th, 2009 at 8:04 am
Hey Matt gee you can make money by selling water you by at home bring to work and take the bottles get a refund and make even more lol
DisasterMan November 4th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Top quality. Classically you, dear boy.
Steve C. November 5th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
its egregious when you have a county mandate of recycling and you have a bin for bottles etc. Tell ya what Matt. I’ll send you the bottles and you can stand in line and try to redeem.
when a county has recycling program then that means we are paying taxes for it so why do we have to pay an additional 5 cents on something we are supposed to recycle?
It’s counter-intelligent and fricken annoying!
Consumer November 5th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Now were the hell can you find a bottle of water for only $1.50?
Richard Tjoa November 8th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
I think the other issue is that a 5c deposit seems like “it costs consumers nothing” but now companies have to keep dual inventories (with different UPC for deposit and non-deposit states) and cope with busier bottle return rooms. We used to be able to crush our bottles and put it in with our curbside recycling, but now we can’t. So, more trips to the store to get our nickel back.

Or, we shop in New Jersey and just throw our bottles in with our curbside recycling. Yes, it would be ideal if people consumed fewer bottles of bottled water… but then New York wouldn’t be making quite so much on unredeemed deposits, now would it?

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