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Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang
In order of effort required: 1) You can either take the bottles back to the bottle depot, 2) save them and donate them to a bottle drive, or 3) put them in your blue bin.
In scenario 1, you get the deposit back. In scenario 2, scouts or a sports team get a donation. In scenario 3, you are giving your money to the city or a bottle picker - whoever gets it first.
I don't agree with bums making a mess, but if you're putting refundables in the blue bin, you are forfeiting the deposit either way. And, as others have mentioned, making it lucrative for bottle pickers. No bottles in blue bins = no bottle pickers. Supply and demand.
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No I am putting them in the blue bin and having the city recylcing program be subsidized by the bottles. The $8 per month fee is based on a certain amount of deposit bearing bottles being collected. If these number are not met the cost of the program will go up.
So the bums are in fact stealing from the city which eventually will cost me more. Remember that 2 jugs of milk a week is $2 per month or 25% of the cost of the program.