Dc proposes 10 cent bottle/can deposit

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Eh I am from a state that does this and have zero issues with it.

DC needs to stop making everything more expensive and ruining quality of life. This will policy will be magnet for homeless people all around the country.

If a bottle deposit is a magnet for homeless people, how is there any homelessness in DC? Why didn't everyone move to Michigan?

Michigan is cold AF and we had a lot of homeless people on and around campus

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For everyone worrying about a homeless person going through the trash, there will also be less litter because people will pick up the bottles. It's probably a neutral-to-good policy for the environment. And it's probably slightly good for the health of DC residents because people will be less likely to buy bottled beverages. The challenge will be enforcement, and that many people will buy drinks in places where they aren't subject to a deposit.

They will still buy it, low-income people are usually bad with money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eh I am from a state that does this and have zero issues with it.

Dc is very corrupt when it comes to garbage cans and recycling . Homeless guy goes through your stuff and makes a mess, you get fined

So clean it up. Is it annoying? Sure. Is it the end of the world? No.

say if you are at work when an inspector comes by? They take photos and fine you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For everyone worrying about a homeless person going through the trash, there will also be less litter because people will pick up the bottles. It's probably a neutral-to-good policy for the environment. And it's probably slightly good for the health of DC residents because people will be less likely to buy bottled beverages. The challenge will be enforcement, and that many people will buy drinks in places where they aren't subject to a deposit.

They will still buy it, low-income people are usually bad with money.

probably will lead to increased shoplifting of beverages

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For everyone worrying about a homeless person going through the trash, there will also be less litter because people will pick up the bottles. It's probably a neutral-to-good policy for the environment. And it's probably slightly good for the health of DC residents because people will be less likely to buy bottled beverages. The challenge will be enforcement, and that many people will buy drinks in places where they aren't subject to a deposit.

They will still buy it, low-income people are usually bad with money.

And cleaning up after themselves, so this is a win-win.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For everyone worrying about a homeless person going through the trash, there will also be less litter because people will pick up the bottles. It's probably a neutral-to-good policy for the environment. And it's probably slightly good for the health of DC residents because people will be less likely to buy bottled beverages. The challenge will be enforcement, and that many people will buy drinks in places where they aren't subject to a deposit.

Except when they knock over your recycling bin and you get fined
They will still buy it, low-income people are usually bad with money.

And cleaning up after themselves, so this is a win-win.

[Anonymous]

Also means homeless people hanging around stores where the deposit machines are located

[Anonymous]

Residents getting crushed by inflation for three years. DC Council: “Hold my beer.”

[Anonymous]

Back in the old country we have kids and alcoholics taking the cans to the machine.
I made 100 rubles taking bottles to the store when I was 14. I bought a bike for the money.
Mostly dad's beer bottles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For everyone worrying about a homeless person going through the trash, there will also be less litter because people will pick up the bottles. It's probably a neutral-to-good policy for the environment. And it's probably slightly good for the health of DC residents because people will be less likely to buy bottled beverages. The challenge will be enforcement, and that many people will buy drinks in places where they aren't subject to a deposit.

They will still buy it, low-income people are usually bad with money.

probably will lead to increased shoplifting of beverages

If you aren't going to arrest for shoplifting, this sounds like a good way to make some cash.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Establishing the infrastructure for collection is a nightmare. Where in Ward 1 do you think they are going to establish the collection site for getting your deposit back?

I went to the university of Michigan in the 1990s. They have a 10 cent bottle deposit in Michigan. Even then you’d go to some kind of grocery store and they have a machine that scans the cans and bottles then gives you receipt for a credit

It's a pain in the butt and draws homeless. I'd rather just be taxed more.

[Anonymous]

How do you get reimbursed for the .10 cent deposit?

[Anonymous]

So.. currently I put my bottles out in a special bin every week, and the city comes and picks it up.

In the future, will that service no longer be offered? Instead, everyone on my block needs to drive/walk to the store on their own to return bottles?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do you get reimbursed for the .10 cent deposit?

if it’s like in Michigan you put the cans in a machine. It counts then though they don’t accept all cans. I think only stuff they sell. Might be different now thirty years later. You get a printout and go to the customer service area and they give you the money. They might have totally automated machines now the either give out cash or a store credit

[Anonymous]

Also the smell. Stores stink due to the cans. My cat would stink lugging the cans and bottles to the store. Beer cans smell not that great. Probably didn’t help that people used them as ashtrays when I was in college