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They should just create a bottle exchange like they do with glass bottles and aluminum cans. Charge the same 5 cents, and people will go out of their way to collect bottles to return for that 5 cents. Most people won't even notice the bump in price, and their habits won't change. But there's always others looking to make money, and this opens a new avenue to keeping more plastic out of the environment.
Those bottles already have that deposit on them in New York State. I regularly see tons of people going around Buffalo picking up bottles and cans to take back to redemption centers for the deposit. All that plastic in the river is happening in spite of that 5 cent redemption.
Now this part is just an anecdote but the people I personally see most often chucking their bottles on the ground are Canadians tossing them out their car windows. Which makes sense since you can't take them back across the border with you and still get the deposit back. They'd have to do it before heading back to Canada.
Sounds like they should adjust it for inflation: apparently the first bottle deposit started in 1971, so the correct price for the deposit in 2023 should be closer to 38¢. (Or maybe even more: Michigan's bottle deposit has been 10¢ since 1976, so the inflation-adjusted price there would be 54¢).
Or, OR the company takes responsibility and doesn't dump trash in the environment instead of some trash return scheme that pushes the responsibility onto the public.
The problem here is individuals littering. IMO a law that forces companies to instead use a different type of packaging that can degrade naturally would be more effective at imparting change.
Yes, the company should be made responsible. But do you want a solution that may actually work, or do you just want to complain that it's not perfect?
The company not causing the issue is the solution that will work.
Great...work on fighting to make them do that. I truly hope you win. In the meantime, how about we do something about the existing problem before it gets worse?
What do you mean? The existing problems is plastic packaging and the solution is to ban it. Make an exception for water and that's it. No one needs any other drinks. If someone really wants to drink Pepsi make them pay extra and carry glass bottles. Let's stop behaving like plastic bottles are essential for life and get rid of this shit.
If only there was a lawsuit brought to the company in question by the government to force them to do it...
You still have to win it first. But until then, how about we just actually do something about the problem?
You seem to think they're dropping empty 2 liter bottles down the hill and people can walk over, pick them up, and return them at a bottle return.
It's literally plastic trash, not something you can hike over with your kids and collect for a few cents.
And again, the public should not be held responsible for a giant company's horrid acts.
Right, so you just want to complain...
No. I want the company to own up and take care of it. Not the regular people that live in the area.
Idk why that's such a difficult thing for you to understand.