Dc proposes 10 cent bottle/can deposit

[Anonymous]

Let's see the environmental impact analysis on this.

Status Quo: You put bottles in your bin on the curb and the city picks it up in one truck for the entire neighborhood.

New option: Everyone on your street collects their own bottles, then each drives separately to the store to drop them off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Option A: Actually enforce DC littering laws.

https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/littering-enforcement-help-keep-dc-clean

Option B: Create more bureaucracy that will be ineffective but cost DC residents and retailers more.

DC progressives. “Option B!”

I lived in Idaho and they give money for recycling (at least at the time).

Not exactly a bastion of progressives.

Right. Because in a rural state it is inefficient and expensive to offer municipal recycling services. DC is a much different story.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Option A: Actually enforce DC littering laws.

https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/littering-enforcement-help-keep-dc-clean

Option B: Create more bureaucracy that will be ineffective but cost DC residents and retailers more.

DC progressives. “Option B!”

I lived in Idaho and they give money for recycling (at least at the time).

Not exactly a bastion of progressives.

Serious question- in Idaho, do you already have curbside recycling pickup of mixed recyclables? Like you can put your cans, cardboard, plastic and aluminum all in one bin 1x a week?

They pick up paper and cardboard but not cans and bottles. At least in Boise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is totally on brand for progressive crazies. Rather than addressing the actual problem, LITTERING, they come up with a new expensive program that won’t solve the underlying problem. I just can’t anymore with these people.

Well you know you could move back to whatever flyover state that come from

I’ve lived here long enough to know that DC is incapable of correctly executing this. I do know that some campaign contributor is going to get rich running the “nonprofit” that industry is being forced to attempt to run this undertaking.

yup

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I believe part of the reason to do this is it allows the plastic of the bottles to be reused as food grade plastic, repeatedly. Single stream recycling means the plastic types are mixed so the bottles can only be used in other kinds of products that make it to dumps faster, cannot be reused as a food container.

I think the recycling centers separate out the different grades of plastic. Or at least they should!

[Anonymous]

DC needs to put a tax on condoms and syringes. They are on the sidewalks everywhere. Nasty city.

[Anonymous]

I live part time in MA, with a 5 cent deposit, and it seems ineffective to me, and a throwback to when we didn't have convenient recycling. It makes drinks more expensive yet it's not enough to go back to the grocery store to get the deposit back. In our town the scouts have a drop off at the dump (we don't have municipal trash pick up) so we just drop them there. But we'd be recycling them at the same place anyway so it is just an extra step and then the scouts have to go through all the items to sort because invariably people mix in non deposit bottles/cans. Very inefficient and I don't think the outcome for recycling is any different.

[Anonymous]

Can we just not institute a stealth tax in the middle of a cratering DC economy? Pretty, please?

[Anonymous]

This another Charles Allen special?

[Anonymous]

This is basically a new dc summer jobs program, but last the entire year

[Anonymous]

We had this in Maryland when I was a kid living in Bowie.
You returned the bottles to the grocery store where you bought them. It was no big deal.

[Anonymous]

I like the idea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We had this in Maryland when I was a kid living in Bowie.
You returned the bottles to the grocery store where you bought them. It was no big deal.

Did 100,000 of your neighbors lose their jobs with no notice when you were a kid?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let's see the environmental impact analysis on this.

Status Quo: You put bottles in your bin on the curb and the city picks it up in one truck for the entire neighborhood.

New option: Everyone on your street collects their own bottles, then each drives separately to the store to drop them off.

This isn’t the status quo. Status quo is that the anacostia river is heavily polluted by bottles, which are discarded on streets or overflowing trash cans that get washed into the river. I recommend that you go on one of those free anacostia river tours to see and learn first hand. The tour guide is really informative and scenery is pleasant. Those who know the river ecosystem and are dedicated to cleaning up our water systems are big proponents of this measure and I’m glad they finally have some success after decades of effort and pushback!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We had this in Maryland when I was a kid living in Bowie.
You returned the bottles to the grocery store where you bought them. It was no big deal.

Did you have curbside single-stream recycling back then?