Should there be a Federal deposit law on all containers ?

Question

Why are we throwing away all of these plastic container and jugs and/or bottles. The one time use of containers is just a great waste, as most go to the landfill. A $0.10 deposit could divert huge amounts of waste that could be easily recycled, from the land fill. I just went and counted 47 different types of one use bottles in my house, after they're empty in the trash they go.

Answer 1

No.  Container deposit laws are not cost effective.  It would be cheaper to throw all containers on the street and then pay people to pick them up.

Where I live we have an excellent recycling facility.  Push for that sort of thing.

Answer 2

By all means.  What we need are more "federal laws", and more things "banned."   Yes, lets make a nice Amerika.

Answer 3

recycling plastics is tricky....it requires lots of energy (oil for truck to pick it up and drive it to often a separate recycling facility), money to pay the truck driver, the people who work at the recycling facility, and to pay for the recycling facility itself(we're talking millions of dollars here for one small town). and than, once you melt the plastic (more oil or coal energy), you can do almost absolutely nothing useful with the finished product because it doesn't have the same physical properties of what it once was.

why not instead: 1. buy in bulk instead of buying lots of itsy bitsy plastic containers. 2. buy glass containers which can actually be recycled to glass again 3. buy glass/plastic and than reuse it instead of buying tupperware. 4. reduce. why not buy less containers. for example: instead of buying liquid soap in a plastic bottle....buy a bar, or carry a re-fillable bottle of water instead of buying a bottle of water.

people think recycling is such a big issue but it doesn't even being to permeate what deep ecology means. you should try recycling your paradigm into something less frivolous :)    plant a seed of a new culture.

p.s. i couldn't ever imagine wasting tax payer money to pay $4.70 for your plastic bottles. the u.s. government is already 10 trillion dollars in debt.

Answer 4

yes, NYPIRG has made that happen for NYS

Answer 5

I think a Federal deposit law is going a bit far.  I agree something does need to be done but not sure a .10 deposit will help.

Answer 6

yes i do beleive that there should be and it should be at least 5 cents or a dime at least.