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Oregon has a beer bottle reuse program. They aim for 40 uses per bottle. Apparently oregon's bottle law is unique because it put the beverage industry in char
by ortusdux 8y ago
Oregon has a beer bottle reuse program. They aim for 40 uses per bottle. Apparently oregon's bottle law is unique because it put the beverage industry in charge of deposits and collection.
https://www.opb.org/news/article/oregon-craft-beer-refillable-bottles/ https://www.opb.org/news/article/oregon-craft-beer-refillabl...
- aaronmiler 8y agoI run a Hard Cider company in OR. We (the beverage industry/my company) are only in practice responsible for deposits. While we are required to take collections, no consumers really returns them to us. The return burden often falls on the retailers, who collect deposit directly from consumers. When we sell product to a retail store. We collect a 10¢ deposit per can from them. The retailer then collects a 10¢ deposit from the customer. My company gives all our collected deposits to a co-op (which is state run I believe) who handle the collection/recycling of the containers. I interact with our bottle bill on a pretty small scale, but I believe that only changes my reporting frequency.