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JIMMYJAWN t1_ixv1t9l wrote

Reply to comment by inthegarden5 in We should just stop trying to recycle by RoverTheMonster

Picture this scenario:

You buy a case of beer. They charge you $15 for the beer, $5 deposit for the bottles. You drink the beer, put the empties back in the case as you drink them. You finish said case and want to purchase another. You take the empties with you to the store and the retailer only charges you $15 for the new case because you are responsible and brought your bottles back instead of breaking them in the parking lot or throwing them in the park or whatever.

You were going to the beer distributor anyway so no wasted energy there.

The beer supplier drops off new cases of beer to the store and picks up the old bottles. He has room on the truck because he unloaded new stock first.

He was going to the beer distributor anyway so no wasted energy there.

I could go on but you get the idea by now hopefully.

This is how it worked for a long time and we need to force businesses to be responsible for the waste their products created. Consumers need to play a small part in the process as well.

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inthegarden5 t1_ixw4ufy wrote

You are right that it would work at the consumer level. I can even see businesses set up to handle all the returns instead of the individual retailers. I was referring to doing it at the recycling company level - they aren't equipped to separate all the different products.

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