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rgbecker

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5. Unbelieveable that only 10 states have deposit required.

Reply to ariadne0614 (Original post)

Wed May 29, 2019, 08:13 AM

May 2019

This idea has been around for 20 years (and longer) yet is still fought off by the Capitalists across the country. Look at the rates of recycling in these 10 states now compared to before and to the averages across the US.

I weep for the future of the world. Over populated, overrun by people who do not care what they leave behind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container_deposit_legislation_in_the_United_States

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Easy plastic waste solution is staring us in the face. [View all] ariadne0614 May 2019 OP

A Plastic Pollution Solution Hiding in Plain Sight RandiFan1290 May 2019 #1

One South Asian country, I forgot which is using waste plastic to fill pot holes.. mitch96 May 2019 #2

India paves whole roads with plastic IronLionZion May 2019 #17

👀 underpants May 2019 #3

K&R Sherman A1 May 2019 #4

Unbelieveable that only 10 states have deposit required. rgbecker May 2019 #5

In NY, the container deposit law has been around my entire lifetime meow2u3 May 2019 #25

My sister and I... SergeStorms May 2019 #33

I left New York in 1980 meow2u3 May 2019 #35

Yep! That's the purpose of it. SergeStorms May 2019 #36

To the Greatest page! sinkingfeeling May 2019 #6

When I was just a lad in the 1950s, soft drink bottles MineralMan May 2019 #7

I wish I still had all the comic books I bought with deposit $. n/t Whiskeytide May 2019 #11

Or the baseball bubblegum cards I bought and put in my bike spokes. zackymilly May 2019 #14

Those too. I suffered the same fate as many ... Whiskeytide May 2019 #20

I wish I had... SergeStorms May 2019 #34

Really! MineralMan May 2019 #15

See my post 20. Among the hand-me-down comic books ... Whiskeytide May 2019 #24

Yup. On the other hand, if all of us had held on to that comic, MineralMan May 2019 #26

Very true -- we ran our lives on the money we got from picking up bottles and getting Nay May 2019 #31

Got a penny each for beer bottles, too... Wounded Bear May 2019 #12

We would cash them in for cigarettes when I was young. zackymilly May 2019 #13

I remember that well Kaiserguy May 2019 #22

In our town cannabis_flower May 2019 #27

Yeah! The Saturday matinee at our theater often showed Westerns as double features. MineralMan May 2019 #32

Michigan leads the way, baby! MrScorpio May 2019 #8

You bet! shraby May 2019 #10

Solution: turn all the plastic waste into LastLiberal in PalmSprings May 2019 #9

We need a solution for plastic bags also. Lonestarblue May 2019 #16

Cloth bags are a good alternative IronLionZion May 2019 #23

What does it become when it dissolves? Plastic JudyM May 2019 #37

It just dissolves completely. Lonestarblue May 2019 #38

We've had bottle deposits here going back to the early 80s in MA Blue_Adept May 2019 #18

Which corporate lobbyists? ehrnst May 2019 #19

Depending on size and type, beverage deposits here reange from 5 to 20 cents. BobTheSubgenius May 2019 #21

When i was a kid, i used to collect bottles for change. It was AMAZING to find one of the .25 ones! oldsoftie May 2019 #30

My little town matt819 May 2019 #28

Dont forget, 90% of ocean plastic waste comes from just 10 rivers in Africa & Asia. oldsoftie May 2019 #29

K&R. n/t rzemanfl Jun 2019 #39