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ChadTower:

You don't get those piles in states that have a refund.

When we were kids, in MA, two liter bottles were a dime.  It was so much better then for the deposit, even the nickel was worth getting, you could actually buy something with it.

RayB:
I don't understand why all states don't have the bottle & can refund. We had it in Quebec since at least the70's. Kids and the homeless end up cleaning up the streets and gutters "for free". I scrounged up much of my arcade and candy money this way!

BobA:
The bottle and can deposit on BEER bottles is 10 cents in Alberta Canada,  On pop it is only 5 cents.   I think this helps alot in keeping some of the bottles and cans from littering the roads.   It does not help with slurpy cups and starbucks cups which are all over the place.

ChadTower:

I think some states won't do it because of the mess the homeless/kids leave when they're looking through dumpsters and bins.  In some areas, in the morning, you'll find half of them dumped and not put back.

Donkey_Kong:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on August 23, 2007, 11:38:08 am ---
--- Quote from: ChadTower on August 23, 2007, 10:54:13 am ---That's why I specified "in the US".

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    * California (5 cents; 10 cents for bottles 24 fl oz or greater), implemented in 1987 and increased 25% in 2007
    * Connecticut (5 cents), 1980
    * Delaware (5 cents), 1982
    * Hawaii (5 cents), 2005
    * Iowa (5 cents), 1979 (also applies to wine bottles)
    * Maine (5 cents, also applied to fruit juice and bottled water; 15 cents for some wine bottles), 1978
    * Massachusetts (5 cents), 1983
    * Michigan (10 cents), 1978 (beer bottles were 5 cents until the 1980s)
    * New York (5 cents), 1982
    * Oregon (5 cents), 1972
    * Vermont (5 cents), 1973

11 states != "the us"



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MICHIGAN!!

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