I was sorting some cans today and while doing it I wondered if people realize how much the state is ripping them off with the bigger, better bottle bill.
When you buy that case of Pepsi you pay 5 cents a can or $1.20. When the empties go to a redemption (not spiritual) center they are sorted by distributor and the redeemer has them picked up by the distributor. They are paid 8.5 cents a can or $2.04 a case.
Who pays the extra 74 cents ? Is it the rich bottlers...the greedy merchants....? No, it's you...Its part of the cost of the product when you bought it, along with the costs of carting around, picking up and storing all these cans and bottles, most of which end up in a landfill.
They should teach that economic lesson in schools.
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I think most people realize that the recycle law is just another one of those "feel good" laws that really don't amount to much in the scheme of things by the time the goverment gets done screwing it up.
And there is only one company that has a machine to take them, but such a machine is mandated in stores larger than 10k square feet. I wonder who that one company makes political donations to...
I throw my bottles and cans away.
11:41, Thats really a dumb thing to do. Who do you think gets to keep that money?? No doubt NYS. It all adds up to a lot of bucks.
Ya that is dumb....They just pull the free money out at the landfills. What did you gain?
Three sodas a day times 365 days a year is $54 dollars per year I am throwing away or giving to the state. I can afford it. Plus I save on rinsing water and I save the city from having to process the sewer water and I don't need as much space at home to store them. Plus the state needs the money...for the children.
Of all the things I could think of to put another $54 in my pocket every year, rinsing dirty bottles and lugging them down to the grocery store and feeding them into a machine is about the last thing that would make sense to do.
I throw mine out the window of my car. They provide jobs for people who pick them up with grocery carts. And my truck travels lighter, thus saving valuable ethanol in the process, making corn more available to feed the chickens, cutting the cost of my chicken nuggets, which makes me lighter, which saves on health insurance, so Iz can smoke more to help the state collect ciggie taxes to help the schools educate the kids for jobs they chased away by taxing the evil corporations who were only trying to cheat NYSUT in the first place. Education comes FIRST in my book. Every time I throw a can out the window I think FREE BOOK for a young sprog learning how to apply for a govment job. Maybe even a job on a State Commission. Hey ya never know.
Just trying to do my fair share.
But throwing them out the window is polluting and wrecks the scenery. throwing them in the landfill just expedites what the recyclers will do anyway and the state gets to keep all the money.
Good they'll tax us less.
I Just throw them all in a trash bag....still dirty...and take them to the place out back of Burger King on Arsenal.
They grab said bags....take them inside....count...hand over the money.
No problem.....But what ever works for you...is okay with me.
I love the State. I want them to prosper. Hold still while I throw another can out the window. Screw the scenery. Actually, cans at the side of the road like kinda nice, all glittery in the moonlight. You oughta see them in the rivers and lakes. The beautiful sheen can take your breath away. If they sink they make artificial reefs that help the fish spawn. I never stop thinking about the environment, the State, or education. All this indoctrination has paid off in my case.
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