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Originally Posted by GGG
It doesn't have to be either or.
Do a simple time value of space and money. To take bottles back doesn't make any sense by the time you drive there (40 cents a km). Your time (after tax wage times and hour) So lets say it takes an hour to take the bottles back. Your looking at at least $25 in costs to take back bottles. $25 in cans at 10 cents each is 250 cans or in the case of milk jugs 100 milk jugs.
Now with I think I can put about 10 to 20 4L milk jugs in a garbage bag so I am looking at a minimum of storing 5 garbage bags of milk jugs somewhere in my house. Now if you have a 2000 square foot house worth around $400k you are paying 200 per square foot of living space with an interest rate of 5% you are paying $10 per year in interest per square foot of space. The garbage bags each will take up around 2 square feet of space so about $2 per month per garbage bag. Since each full bag of milk jugs is worth $5 so if you have to store the milk jugs more then 2.5 months you have spent more on storage.
So between effective storage costs and time and gas costs I don't think it makes sense for me to recycle especially win there is a mandatory fee and program which allows me to recylce without effort.
I ask the same question to you Why do you feel it is worth your time to recycle.
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I've paid for the deposit and will be getting it back. It's that simple, I don't like being ripped off. I generally take about 8 massive bags to the depot for a return of anywhere between 40-60 bucks.
Sure my house is large and I can store bags in my basement and/or garage. The depot is a 5 minute drive, they sort and count them in about 15 minutes.
I have no problems with people who don't use bottle depots, I just don't understand why they wouldn't want their money back when they originally purchased their beer or juice.