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As a native Californian, I’ve never redeemed a CRV in my life, and I’m not sure anybody I know does, either. The prospect of not putting recycling in the recycl
by BurritoAlPastor 5y ago
As a native Californian, I’ve never redeemed a CRV in my life, and I’m not sure anybody I know does, either. The prospect of not putting recycling in the recycling bin so I can have another errand in my life is remarkably unappealing, especially given that I’d make less than a dollar a month for doing so.
There’s a certain amount of people rummaging through the bins on trash night, but only in urban areas, and they can’t be that thorough. I imagine that most of our recycling rate comes from ubiquitous curbside recycling programs, and the CRV goes to the waste management companies, who just keep it as profit.
- ghaff 5y agoI basically never redeem deposits either. My town recycling center, which I go to a few times a year basically to dump all my Amazon cardboard, has a place you can leave deposit containers for a local animal shelter so I accumulate and take it in along with the cardboard.
- toast0 5y ago> the CRV goes to the waste management companies, who just keep it as profit. It's part of the negotiation with the municipality on the collection contract. If you want to call it offsetting costs or profit, money is fungible; if CRV was eliminated, billing for collection would go up in the next contract.